INFLUENCE
How external forces quietly shape your beliefs, values and identity from birth.
Insight of how we assume truth — and how those who know it, use it.
"It's brutal, but that too is the reality.
You may need to keep your beliefs aside." — Amey K.
WHAT YOU SEE, IS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO SEE.
WHAT YOU THINK, IS WHAT WE WANT YOU TO THINK.
WHAT YOU BELIEVE, IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO BELIEVE.
AND WHAT YOU DO, IS WHAT EVERYBODY WISHES YOU TO DO.
It's a game. A game of influence, a game of deception, a game of interest. A game which is dependent more on ignorance rather than just innocence. However, it's your choice.
→ Choose which side you want to be?Every day, you make hundreds of decisions based on incomplete information. You fill the gaps with assumptions — and call it truth. Psychologists call this cognitive bias. This book gives it a sharper name.
The meaning of Partial Deduction is exactly that — the moment your mind receives only part of the picture, builds the rest from bias and conditioning, and presents the finished conclusion to you as reality.
From how beliefs are planted — to how they are weaponised against you.
How external forces quietly shape your beliefs, values and identity from birth.
Why your conclusions are rarely your own — and how incomplete data shapes truth.
Understanding the brain's shortcuts, biases, and predictable patterns of thought.
From Kurukshetra to modern politics — how masters of deception play the game.
The invisible force that governs every human action — and how to use it.
"World is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." — Arthur Conan Doyle
19 CHAPTERS · 5 PARTSThe book draws lessons from the greatest manipulators and the most courageous rebels across history — all to illuminate the same truth.
At 21, he threw bombs in Parliament — not to kill, but to make the deaf hear. The story of how a village boy became a legend through books, conviction and fearless action.
"The explosion was the last chapter. We need to understand the first one."
How one man weaponised newspapers, radio, and cinema to make six million people disappear. The science of manufacturing hatred from ordinary lives.
"Propaganda is not always what it looks like in the history books."
A 3,000-year history of how sellers learned to create wounds — and then sell you the cure. The 1.25 trillion USD industry that was never really about the product.
"They didn't just sell things. They learned to manufacture anxiety."
The greatest strategy manual ever written — hidden inside a war story. How Krishna played the ultimate game of interest and deception to change the fate of a civilisation.
"The strings were always there — nobody looked up to see who held them."
Multi-level marketing — the modern snake oil. How ancient techniques of social proof, fear, and belonging are repurposed every day to drain ordinary people of their savings and trust.
"The same weapon. Completely different hands. Always the same target."
How the East India Company didn't win India with guns alone — but with interest, betrayal, and the mastery of exploiting the one thing every man has: something to lose.
"There are no permanent enemies, only permanent interests." — Lord Palmerston
Also features: Bernie Madoff · Anne Frank · Edward Bernays · Chanakya · Modern Social Media
Fifteen cards from across the pages · hover to pause scroll
How the mind fills in what it isn't shown — and how that one flaw has been used to shape history, manufacture consent, and sell you back to yourself.
"The explosion was the last chapter. What we actually need to understand is the first one."
You are not being sold a product. You are being sold yourself.
He gives you the brush. You paint yourself into the corner. You call it your own opinion.
From one mind to an entire nation
Every experience leaves a mark. Every mark shapes the next decision.
"The fittest ideology wins."
Before the feed controls you — four principles
"A person who believes they are insufficient will spend their entire life trying to purchase sufficiency."
The standards were built from interests. The anxiety is the product. The cure is always for sale.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
"The sequence is the weapon. Not the argument. Arrive your words after fear and they land as a threat. Arrive them after laughter and they land as play."
Bhagat Singh's longest hunger strike — one of the most inspiring acts of resistance in Indian history.
He was 23 when they hanged him.
A PATTERN FEELS LIKE KNOWLEDGE.
BUT A PATTERN ISN'T PROOF.
AND YET THE VERDICT WAS ALREADY DELIVERED.
"Understanding is the specific moment when something you have learned moves from your head to your bones — when you can no longer unlearn it, because it has become part of the instrument you use to perceive everything else."
The game of influence, propaganda and manipulation is being played right now — on you, around you, through you. This book doesn't promise answers. It promises awareness.