By Saket Suman, New Delhi : A new book, “The Billionaire Raj”, paints a revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class and places it against the backdrop of the “radically unequal society” that is found in the ...
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By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Like a Bird on the Wire; Author: Chhavi Bhardwaj; Publisher: Amaryllis; Pages: 327; Price: Rs. 399 If 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Upamanyu Chatterjee’s “English, August” gave readers a slick English-speaking young bureaucrat, floundering ...
Read More »An engaging saga of the Durrani daughters (Book Review)
By Mohammed Shafeeq, Book: The Begums of Peshawar; Author: Najma Yusufi; Publisher: Hachette India; Price: Rs 399; Pages: 306 This book, the debut novel by Najma Yusufi, a filmmaker and lecturer, is her tribute to her ancestors — the Afghan ...
Read More »‘National security also about governance, don’t politicise actions of the armed forces’ (Book Review)
By Vishnu Makhijani, Book: How India Manages Its National Security; Author: Arvind Gupta; Publisher: Penguin/Viking; Pages: 410; Price: Rs 599 National security is not just about the military, it also concerns governance and the tendency to politicise the actions of ...
Read More »Rosy picture of a raging fire (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: The RSS – A View to the Inside; Authors: Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle; Publisher: Penguin; Pages: 405; Price: Rs 699 In a book released this week, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been ...
Read More »The Book ‘Two Sides of A Coin’ is a narrative by an Army Officer
Quignog, an imprint of Pirates has come up with a fictitious book ‘Two Sides of A Coin’ that delves deep into the conscience of two individuals, the first being an army officer and other being a militant. Their dreams rest on their ...
Read More »One woman’s incredible story of defiance (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: The Wind In My Hair; Author: Masih Alinejad; Publisher: Little Brown UK/Hachette India; Price: Rs 699; Pages: 394 A courageous woman, driven by nothing but her insistence on living life the way she wanted to, untied ...
Read More »The not-so-raunchy side of the world of spies (Book Review)
By Sarwar Kashani, Title: “The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage”, Author: Vikram Sood; Publisher: Penguin Random House; Pages: 304; Price: Rs 599 What do you expect from a book that promises insights into the world of ...
Read More »From Delhi’s cocktail circuit to Odisha’s longest serving CM, a balanced telling of Naveen Patnaik’s journey (Book Review)
By Chinmaya Dehury, Title: Naveen Patnaik; Author: Ruben Banerjee; Publishers: Juggernaut; Pages: 226; Price: Rs 469 How did a man, spending his early days on Delhi’s cocktail circuit, defy stereotypes to script an enviable success story that has few parallels ...
Read More »SC to hear plea seeking banning part of Malayalam novel ‘Meesha’
New Delhi : The Supreme Court will hear a plea on Thursday that seeks to ban excerpts of Malayalam novel “Meesha”, whose serialisation in a leading Malayalam weekly was withdrawn by the author following threats by suspected right-wing outfits. The ...
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