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Dinyar Patel's book, Naoroji, fills a gap in major historical scholarship
Historical scholarship has been so preoccupied with the later nationalists - Gandhi, Patel, Nehru, Bose et al - that it has neglected, or been indifferent to, the individual who started it all.
 "Dinyar Patel's book, Naoroji, fills a gap in major historical scholarship")
The treasure of comfort reads
The ideal re-reading ritual should be of a book just smart enough to not irritate you, just deep enough to keep you engaged
Before the Emergency
Political developments as have unfolded in independent India have often been seen as an outcome of policy shifts in an earlier period
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Period piece pleasures
There are several novelists who have set their detective stories in this period when the freedom movement was taking roots in India
Between deer and running dogs
Book review of The Deer and the Dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21st Century
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The art of travel reading
The market for travelogues in the West is well established. In India it's still struggling because 99 per cent of those who travel can't write or even know what good travel writing is
Rohinton Mistry's 1995 novel captured the grand tragedies of Emergency
A Fine Balance is also a ludicrous sketch of a nation, its grand tragedies and political misadventures, specifically during the Emergency of 1975, which was declared 45 years ago on June 25
 "Rohinton Mistry's 1995 novel captured the grand tragedies of Emergency")
Timeless stories in Bangla literature
As a school student, this writer experienced Rabindranath Tagore's masterly art of story-telling while reading The Holiday or The Homecoming as part of the curriculum
Big Tech is watching you
Ms Faroohar looks at how BT has taken over our lives, and the manipulative and malign aspects of its influence on society
 "Big Tech is watching you")
Marquez between fact and fiction
The book is factual and takes much narrative licence with facts
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Law and disorder
Though well-written, Cult of Glory isn't a book for the fainthearted
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The renewed interest in a widely acclaimed book on 'bullshit jobs'
A widely acclaimed book on 'bullshit jobs' is at the centre of renewed interest ever since the Covid-19-induced lockdown shone a spotlight on the nature of 'essential services'
 "The renewed interest in a widely acclaimed book on 'bullshit jobs'")
Negotiating with empathy
The book's style is simple and the suggestions it contains are eminently practicable
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Facts and monocracy
As a country like Viktor Orban's Hungary shows, autocracy can thrive on corruption and soft oppression
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A novel presages a dystopian world from a pandemic worse than Covid-19
The End of October, published this April, has at its centre a fictional virus sweeping across the world, forcing people to live under indefinite lockdown, and pushing the global economy disaster.
 "A novel presages a dystopian world from a pandemic worse than Covid-19")
The politics of the kitchen sink
Sally Howard blends qualitative research, academic literature, pop culture and history with her own lived experience to bring politics to where it truly belongs-the kitchen sink
 "The politics of the kitchen sink")
The Flywheel of Jeff Bezos
You cannot build a business that touches hundreds of millions of lives and thousands of companies and become the richest man on earth without attracting attention
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A neo-con rethinks
Are we in danger of a crisis that will shatter our brilliant experiment in self-government? And, if so, what can we do about it?
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Gunjan Veda's book seeks to break caste through sunlit stories from India
Author Gunjan Veda confronts her own prejudices in the hesitant but brave epilogue of her book The Museum of Broken Tea Cups: Postcards from India's Margins
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Maharashtra's autumn of discontent
This is why Kamlesh Sutar's book on the 36-day drama in Maharashtra, that eventually led to the installation of Uddhav Thackeray as chief minister
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