By Nishant Arora, Title: Hit Refresh; Author: Satya Nadella; Publisher: Harper Collins; Pages: 272; Price: Rs 599 When you hit “Refresh” in a web browser by clicking the little arrow — or press the “F5” function key — it quickly ...
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By Vikas Datta Title: Everybody Lies – What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are; Author: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz; Publisher: Bloomsbury; Pages: 352; Price: Rs 499 It may have been the first to indicate Donald Trump would be ...
Read More »Working with Obama: Lessons for young women with political inclinations (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Title: Who Thought This Was a Good Idea; Author: Alyssa Mastromonaco; Publisher: Hachette; Price: Rs 499; Pages: 244 The unusual title of this book is inspired by a question which former US President Barack Obama frequently asked ...
Read More »A stranger in a strange land looking for closure (Book Review)
By Himani Kothari, Title: In a Foreign Land, By Chance; Author: Nabaneeta Dev Sen; Translator: Soma Das; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages: 144; Price: Rs 295 How is a person’s identity constructed? Does it owe to the place people hail from, ...
Read More »‘How the BJP Wins’: Travelling through the party’s recent election victories (Book Review)
By Brajendra Nath Singh, Title: How the BJP Wins; Author: Prashant Jha; Publisher: Juggernaut Books; Pages: 235; Price: Rs 399 Barring a hic-cup or two, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party ...
Read More »A Sanskrit poet’s celebration of human experience across the spectrum (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, Title: Three Hundred Verses – Musings on Life, Love and Renunciation; Author: Bhartrihari/A.N.D. Haksar (translator); Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Pages: 336; Price: Rs 599 The profane and the sacred (or philosophical) do not need necessarily have ...
Read More »Of discovery, misery and smart shopping
New Delhi : Read a step-by-step programme to discover a new you; know the miserable stories around foreign nationals brought to the United Arab Emirates to construct its towering skyscrapers; get an interesting guide to learn smart shopping; and flick ...
Read More »On our heads mostly: Hair and its importance to human society (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, Title: Hair (Object Lessons); Author: Scott Lowe; Publisher: Bloomsbury; Pages: 152; Price: Rs 250 For a filament of dead protein protruding out of our skin, hair’s significance far outstrips any other body part, including those that help ...
Read More »Telling Putin’s side of the story, from Crimea to Trump and more (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, Title: The Putin Interviews; Author/Interviewer: Oliver Stone; Publisher: Hot Books/Skyhorse Publishing; Pages: 289; Price: Rs 699 What do we make of Vladimir Putin? There are those who deem him an astute statesman who has brought Russia back ...
Read More »Of marketing, Tamil Nadu commoners, Khushwant Singh
New Delhi : Enlighten yourself on integrated marketing communications, models of communication strategy and diffusion of innovation; delve into the depths of the human psyche through stories dealing with the commoners of Tamil Nadu; read about the legendary author Khushwant ...
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