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Detection diary

Although the book contains interesting, less known or occasionally shocking revelations, the reader is likely to demand better returns for labouring through 614 pages of familiar phases

Instagram's inside story

No Filter has a deceptively simple goal: 'To bring you the definitive inside story of Instagram'

Her voice amid lurking danger: Reflections on some feminist crime novels

It goes without saying that not all of the female crime novelists come out as feminists, and that some male writers can do feminist crime novels quite well.

A gripping book on T20 cricket and why it's the sport's default format

Two English cricket writers have written a brilliant and engaging history of the shorter form of cricket that explains why it has become the default format of the sport worldwide, says Dhruv Munjal

Immigrant chronicles

We learn about Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy who traded in opium, earned a fortune, and donated generously to charities during the Bengal famine of 1943

From good wife to free agent

Pakistani-Canadian inspirational speaker and social entrepreneur Samra Zafar's memoir will leave readers simultaneously horrified and inspired

End runs in End Times

Mr O'Connell's timing was either a bit premature or just right. In the last three months a global pandemic has already killed tens of thousands

Akbar: The Great Mughal is an instructive retelling of the emperor's life

This vivid retelling of Mughal emperor Akbar's life is both timely and instructive

All in the family... and friends

Learning how to build a brand can easily take a semester-long MBA course but the authors manage to distil their story over 25 chapters spanning 236 pages

Tamil Nadu's political mothership

Jayalalithaa was truly a lone empress loved fiercely by her party followers and loathed by her political adversaries

The 'groupthink' contrarian

The term groupthink itself was inspired by such Orwellian words as newspeak and doublethink

Bureaucracy's 'Subramaniam Swamy'

The book details the nightmares of a bureaucrat who dares to reform a rotten system and innovate in a rigid bureaucracy

The mind of American conservatism

The volume's focus is confined to the 20th century, with its earliest selection from 1907

A reading of selections from Tulsidas's rendering of the many deeds of Ram

These selections from Tulsidas's rendering of the many deeds of Ram will arrest the trend of defining him as a unidimensional character

Stories on a map

The book is a revelation, opening up the streets and alleys and the iconic "park" of the area to a new light

The evolution of Facebook

The book is weakest in explaining the central controversy plaguing Facebook today: Its ginormous control over the flow of global information and misinformation

Adventures of a serial entrepreneur

It is a small book - a little more than 240 pages - and an easy read. It can be finished in a single day, provided you do not get distracted

Employment beyond the data

Since independence, the Indian economy has been growing at rates moderately high, to slow, to high, and back to moderate in recent times

Here's looking at you, grid

It is in the modern era that this book loses its lapidary elegance

The Congress' golden years

Book review of The Lotus Years: Political Life in India in the Time of Rajiv Gandhi