Book Review - Junglezen Sheru & Tuesdays with Morrie

Junglezen Sheru by Samarpan:

This is book delves into the leadership styles and tries to explain in the form of Jungle Setup. The characters are Animals and their natural instincts e.g. Wolves(Rig)=cunning, Monkeys (Kapi)=Copy Paste, Elephant (Muktak)=Wisdom & Tortoise (Kurma)=Peaceful etc. juxtaposed with that of real people in real world and how they behave or should behave.

Intrinsic values howsoever basic or little, of a person shouldn’t be altered else you lose the very value of you being part of a system. One should build / work on the intrinsic and enhance so as to shine.

The theory is explained in form of Drama in a Jungle when the King of the Jungle dies and the leadership is handed over to the Monkeys who being good at Copy Paste (read no brain of his own) applies a theory called Junglezen (all are equal irrespective of their place in the food chain) and thus starts the misplacement of powers, theories, values etc.

Explained in simple English the concept of unequal as the essence of being. I think however that the end is little abrupt and leaves a lot to imagination.

Surely recommended for people who wish to start their reading habit as this is a small book and well written.

 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom:

This book is beautifully written in chapter form and there is a single story woven through the book.

The 2 main characters are Mitch & Morrie. Morrie was a professor in the institute Mitch was the student. Morrie was short heighted but full of life while Mitch was growing up and more bothered about life in front of him but there was a unsaid bond between them. Eventually Morrie is diagnosed with a fatal disease (ALS) and he has a certain time to live.

The disease changes his already different take on life. He talks about death and makes plan to die. Being comfortable with your situation, thinking positive always (even in death), add life to days & not days to death.

-          Accept what you are able to do & what you are not able to do

-          Accept the past as past without denial or discarding it

-          Learn to forgive yourself & others

-          Don’t assume it’s too late to get involved

-          Consumerism is making people distant, enjoying simple things are getting difficult

Mitch met him on Tuesdays (& hence the title of the book) and discussed various facets of life & death. Why people behave in a way that they behave, why your own kids / siblings distance themselves etc etc

This book will certainly change the way you look at life (& death) and treat people. I recommend this book to people who feel shallow in life and meanings of relationships are forgotten.

Hope you enjoy these as much as I did.

Pranaam!