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 ...
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Feed SubscriptionIs 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 »Maharana Pratap: A warrior who withstood the might of Mughal empire at its peak (Book Review)
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Maharana Pratap – The Invincible Warrior; Author: Rima Hooja; Publisher: Juggernaut Books; Pages: 204; Price: Rs. 499 Who really won the battle of Haldighati? Did Maharana Pratap’s army and his Bhil tribals outnumber Akbar’s Imperial army? ...
Read More »An ‘epic’ on Indian soldiers in WWI (Book Review)
By C. Uday Bhaskar, Book: The Indian Empire At War; Author: George Morton-Jack; Publisher: Little, Brown; Pages: 582; Price Rs 699 World War I was a long and brutal military confrontation between the major powers of the early 20th century, ...
Read More »‘Scorpion’, not ‘Shiva lingam’, is Tharoor’s subject (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and his India; Author: Shashi Tharoor; Publisher: Aleph Book Company; Pages: 504; Price: Rs 799 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) revels in being in the public eye, and reaps the ...
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