In the Company of Books

Reading has always been how I make sense of the world around me. The books you'll see here aren't just sitting on a shelf—they've genuinely shaped how I think about everything from human history to the future we're building together. Some completely flipped my worldview upside down, others felt like conversations with brilliant minds I'll never meet, and quite a few have become go-to references when I'm trying to understand complex ideas. This isn't just my reading list; it's really the story of how my thinking has evolved over the years. From Harari's sweeping takes on civilization to the Bengali novels that keep me connected to my heritage, each book here has taught me something I didn't know I needed to learn.

Few have articulated the wonder of reading as beautifully as Carl Sagan - and I hold his words close:
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."