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Climate change and human history

The book is marred by errors of fact and too often reads like a series of potted histories

Gabriel García Márquez in the eyes of those who knew him

Paternostro talks about finding plenty of others who'd talk, Márquez's superstitions and discipline, and more.

Book review: Exposing the real motives of Xi Jinping's 'globalisation' rant

How successful has Xi been in his prodigious effort to turn China into a major world power and replace the US as the leader not of an alliance but of a "community of common destiny"?

Aryan myths

This book and the recent studies will dismay the Hindutva supporter who sees in India and its Vedic period as something pure

Very, very special memoir

281 and beyond is a special book on a few counts: it presents Mr Laxman, mostly reticent during his playing days, and insufficiently articulate as a broadcaster, in a new light

Superhuman learning

Review of 'Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI'

Out of the caste mould

The personal narrative is interspersed with acute observations on Dalit history, Ambedkar, the Indian tendency to look down on manual labour

How Asia ruled the world

Much of this book turns on Mr Sharman's critique of what historians term the "military revolution thesis"

'Kumbha' book review: An overly simple explainer of mega event in Prayagraj

This year's Kumbh, for instance, is significant on various levels, the first being the focus on sanitation and cleanliness

The road to world power

It focused on China as the key factor in this transition and its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as an instrumentality in reshaping the emerging order

'An ingeniously Indian enterprise'

One critical contribution in the book is the author's focus on the "compromised fourth estate"

Contours of the 'Asian Century'

The questions raised by the author's stimulating book highlight his deft weaving together of technology, geopolitics, economics, globalisation - and the decline and rise of great powers

China & India: The threat of populist nationalism

An exclusive excerpt from former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan's latest book

Islam's great divide

Mr McHugo is a liberal British scholar of Islamic studies, currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at St Andrews University

Mistakes that led to Trump

Tomasky writes, "is the father of the modern political party, and therefore in some sense the man we might call the godfather of polarisation"

The daunting task of translating sacred texts four times Mahabharata's size

Many stories in The Bhagavata Purana uphold the spirit of the Vaishanava tradition of universal love

India's secondary sex

What kind of society are we that we consistently, deliberately - and systematically - fail our women?

The 1984 riots: 'An excavation of memory'

The riot creeps in like a mishap that ruins a thoroughly enjoyable trip, and disorients everyone who is a part of it, says Radhika Oberoi

Unmasking British rule in India

Ms Desai has built her well-documented narrative in six chapters and marshalled evidence from the British-appointed Hunter Committee inquiry into the massacre

Whose goddess is it, anyway?

Structured as a collection of 15 essays that look at Navaratri through the ages and across the social spectrum, it traces the emergence of the festival in early Sanskrit texts