(Following are excerpts from two chapters – �Highs in Delhi, Lows in Bihar and �The Rising Stars of Bihar Politics of �Gopalganj to Raisina: My Political Journey, a memoir by Lalu Prasad Yadav, President of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, a ...
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Feed SubscriptionHeads, hands and hearts: How ‘Globotics’ will change worklife (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: The Globotics Upheaval-Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work; Author: Richard Baldwin; Publisher: Orion/Hachette India; Pages: 292; Price: Rs 699 Predictions about job crisis that the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence may unleash in developing ...
Read More »Of longing, companionship and homecoming: Arundhati Roy to launch ‘The Ministry…’ in Hindi and Urdu
By Saket Suman, New Delhi : Booker winning novelist Arundhati Roy’s second novel “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” — written after a hiatus of two decades — is the universe, she says, imagined in many languages which like its characters ...
Read More »Is Xi-ism the new doctrine of Communism? (Book Review)
By Aroonim Bhuyan, Book: Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping; Author: Francois Bougon; Publisher: Westland Publications; Pages: 181; Price: Rs 599 With Xi Jinping being named President of China for life, a new book explores whether a new doctrine called ...
Read More »‘Bullocks from the West’: The South, its land, its lore in technicolour (Book Review)
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Bullocks from the West; Author: N.A. Muthuswamy; Publisher: Westland Books; Pages: 175; Price: Rs 499 If you are living a life in urban India, which passes like a blur each time you open your eyes, the ...
Read More »Markets don’t repeat trends, they rhyme (Book Review)
By Ravi Dutta Mishra, Book: Mastering the Market Cycle; Author: Howard Marks, Publisher: Hachette India; Pages: 315; Price: Rs 699 In his new book “Mastering the market cycle”, Howard Marks, one of the most successful investment managers, attempts to explain ...
Read More »When the story of your suffering is the best weapon you have (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: The Last Girl; Author: Nadia Murad; Publisher: Vergo Press/Hachette India; Pages: 306; Price: Rs 499 She suffered at the hands of the Islamic State, was held captive as a sex slave, but went on to become ...
Read More »How real is the ‘TruModi’ bromance? (Book Review)
By Arun Kumar, Book: Open Embrace: India-US ties in the Age of Modi and Trump; Author: Varghese K. George; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Price: Rs 599. Donald Trump’s “America First” politics with its anti-Islamism focus and Narendra Modi’s nationalist ...
Read More »How Gandhi came to drink goat milk (Book Review)
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Kasturba Gandhi; Publisher: Thornbird; Pages: 424; Price: Rs. 795 The woman who silently and patiently stood by the Father of the Nation, supporting Mahatma Gandhi’s grand plans to free India from colonial rule, as well as ...
Read More »I end up withholding much more than telling: Writer S. Hussain Zaidi
By Radhika Bhirani, New Delhi : Between exploring the complex labyrinth of India’s criminal underbelly and narrating it to curious readers through his gritty books on dons and mafia queens, there’s a lot that writer S. Hussain Zaidi still ends ...
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