Book Review: Butterflies
For most of us colourful butterflies mean how we chased them when we were young and tucked them inside a textbook as a prized trophy for months and years.
Book Review: Business Sutra
Indians’ don’t talk. They argue. And the more they argue, the more they pepper their arguments with anecdotes, folklore, proverbs and myths to force their views on each other.
Book Review- Drone Warfare: Killing by remote
The book 'Drone Warfare: Killing by remote' by Medea Benjamin is an excellent work which has very lucidly covered every facet involved with the use of drones or UAVs.
Book Review: The Way Of The Knife
Somewhere in Mark Mazzetti's 400-page scholarship on CIA and its changing role in the post-9/11 world, there is a scene where an ex-counterterrorism expert appears before the 9/11 Commission.
Book Review: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
There is little doubt that Khaled Hosseini is the most widely read Asian writer of our time amongst both literary geniuses and pulp fiction writers.
Book Review: The Sea of Innocence
A thriller erected on the foundation of shocking incidents yanked out of the newspapers, The Sea of Innocence is Kishwar Desai’s third book in the Simran Singh series.
Book Review: Americanah
Somewhere in the middle of Chimamanda Adichie’s novel ‘Americanah’, the protagonist, Ifemelu, finds herself in a salon getting her hair done.
Book Review: War Against The Taliban
It is not always easy to review a book written by someone you partly idolize. The pressure is immense, and it is singularly difficult to figure out when your biases creep in.
Book Review: Big Data
From the Stone to Digital age, human civilization has processed information and data. This is starting to change, observes Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University and Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor of the Economist and a prominent commentator, in their latest book, Big Data.
Book Review: On Hinduism
Let us assume you don’t know anything about Hinduism, and all you have is the present radicalized climate of India to go by.
Book Review: Mao: The Real Story
In one of his rare moments of ideological clarity, Chairman Mao Zedong had famously quipped, "Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.†Whenever some young baffled comrade fails to understand the motivation behind the USSR-China antagonism, I remind them of the aforementioned quote.
Book Review:Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy
Cricket's links with gambling are probably as old as the game itself. But when did match-fixing seep in? To answer that question, in this first-of-its-kind exposé of the rot at the heart of international cricket, sports journalist Ed Hawkins takes us back to an 1851 book by one Reverend Pycroft.
Book Review : Red Sorghum
Let me start with a warning first. If you are one of those who conform to the Western stereotypes of China and the Chinese way of life, do yourself a favour.
Book Review: Accidental India
Accidental India: A History of the Nation’s Passage through Crisis and Change, authored by veteran journalist Shankkar Aiyar, is an effort to deconstruct the architecture and ancestry of the changes that have taken place in the country since India became independent in 1947.
Book Review: The Last Love Letter
Minty Tejpal's The Last Love Letter is designed to immediately grab your attention and it does. The back cover has a rather cryptic summing up of the story that reads "I am tired and confused.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
