Manish Sinha has managed to retain most of his books since his Enid Blyton reading days.
Manish Sinha, Managing Director of Dun & Bradstreet India, tells us what’s on his bookshelf.
Book count Currently I am reading 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama. I have around 1000 books or maybe even more. I have managed to retain most of my books since my Enid Blyton reading days. However, these days I prefer using a Kindle. The number one reason for doing so is obviously because I can carry so many books at once. I also like features like X-ray (especially handy when reading a long elaborate book with hundreds of characters), Dictionary and very importantly the ability to adjust the font size.
My top 5 recommendation - 'Lord of the Rings' – JRR Tolkien
- 'A Suitable Boy' – Vikram Seth - 'Pillars of the Earth' – Ken Follett - 'Foundation Series' - Isaac Asimov - 'Calvin & Hobbes' – Bill Waterson
Almost all of these books create a world into which they transport the reader effortlessly. As a reader the level of detailing in these books makes the reader immerse in them naturally.
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Michelle Obama at the signing of her memoir 'Becoming' Re-reader I love to return to the Ken Follett books set during World War II: 'Eye of the Needle', 'Jackdaws', 'The Key to Rebecca', 'Hornet Flight'
What’s next My next book will be William Dalrymple’s 'The Anarchy'. I bought it in mid-October, during the book launch in Mumbai by Dalrymple himself. It’s a fascinating and sobering history on the East India Company. Dalrymple describes the company’s India leadership as “a violent, utterly ruthless and intermittently mentally unstable corporate predator”. What’s fascinating is that this company still managed with 2,000 English men to build an army with 200,000 Indian sepoys, financed by Indian Bankers, to enslave a country of tens of million Indians.
Favourite genre Historical and historical fiction are my favourites. I love the amalgamation of facts with imaginative narrative. To know that I’m not reading about events that are a figment of someone’s imagination but something that really happened makes it my favourite genre. If you listened to Dalrymple’s description above on The Anarchy, if the East India Company hadn’t really existed, no one would have believed it was real!
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