by Aseem Gupta | Mar 29, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
In The Widow, John Grisham places a financially desperate lawyer in a situation that appears capable of solving all his problems. Simon Latch has spent nearly two decades running an undistinguished small-town legal practice in Virginia. His marriage is disintegrating,...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 22, 2026 | Economics, Markets & Money
Greece did not wake up one morning and suddenly discover it was bankrupt. For years, the country had been living inside an economic illusion. It had the spending habits of a state that could borrow cheaply, the institutions of a state that struggled to collect taxes,...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 21, 2026 | Society, Culture & Demographics
Canada Lost More Than A Hockey Game The moment was almost too perfect in its cruelty. February 22, 2026. Italy. Olympic gold medal game. Canada versus the United States. Hockey’s oldest continental rivalry on the biggest winter-sport stage in the world. After three...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 15, 2026 | History, Empires & Civilizations
There is no meaningful way to calculate what percentage of India’s history humanity knows. Historical knowledge does not come from counting artefacts alone. It also comes from buildings, inscriptions, coins, manuscripts, landscapes, human remains, environmental...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 8, 2026 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds) is the third Captain Underpants adventure. It begins with a school prank involving...
