The lockdown did not really help Waqar Naqvi CEO of Taurus Mutual Fund to read given the other challenges it posed like lack of domestic help etc. Yet whatever time could be devoted to reading books, he spent on avoiding business or finance books. I got back to books on history and wars including books on Genjhiz Khan, Temur Lane, Shivaji, and Roman wars. Some books written by the greatest Hindi novelist, Premchand. The books on wars indeed provide insights on leadership, strategy, management and communication. Imagine Genjhis Khan leading an army of a couple of lakh soldiers with no cell phones or satellite phones, loud speakers etc into territories which he had never been to. The books written by quintessential Premchand convey to you that what he wrote 150 or more years back is still relevant. The same things described by him in his books still take place, sometimes in the same manner and sometimes adapt to the modern era with the outcomes remaining constant, he tells ET Panac