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The two faces of nonalignment

The book itself shows that Indira Gandhi refrained from lecturing Washington on Vietnam because only the US could give India the food it needed

'Real India' from the top down

Mr Sharma charts the rise of the future prime minister through his third consecutive win in the Gujarat Assembly election of 2012.

Chris Christie's testament

If Trump had only listened to him, Christie writes, he would have fired James B Comey, then director of the FBI, at the start of his administration

The Twice-Born review: Aatish Taseer tries to eulogise Brahminical culture

This book, as Taseer explains in the very first chapter, was a product of his father and Pakistani politician Salmaan Taseer's assassination in January 2011

Anti-Facebook manifesto, by early investor

A tech company founded on creating human connection is now ripping American society apart and compromising our civic foundation, though not because it has overtly wicked intent

A victim's comeback

Ms Murad's prose describes atrocities that have now become part of the refugee-crisis discourse

The perfect textbook

The tale is instructive because to practically all North Indians the people who live in the five states that comprise peninsular India - the South - are kalay Madrassi

The globetrotting tax expert

The epilogue reveals the ability of a consummate author to express himself far beyond a writer of economics treatises

All our yesterdays

Fenby's history covers 13 months from June 1947 to June 1948, a period that, he says, 'really did change the world, shaping much of it in a form that gives the period a lasting relevance for our day'

A story of self determination

In 1973, after a protest, members of the Oglala Sioux tribe march to the cemetery where their ancestors were buried

Ex-NYT executive editor Abramson's book charts journalism's stormy seas

The book tells the story in 13 chapters, three on each protagonist-company and one on Facebook

Imperial frontiers and conquests

The author's description of the Portuguese challenge to Akbar, Jahangir and Shahjahan in Bengal is particularly informative

India's Beat Generation

While interest in the poets has certainly piqued in recent years readers will be left with more questions than answers after reading the book.

The spectre of BJP

Though Ghose pegs the book to the present government, blamed for an increase in illiberalism, let's focus on that core liberal agenda

Creating the calm corporation

By making the right choices, it is possible to build a company that is perhaps less ambitious, but is profitable, gentler on its employees, and true to its customers

The art of tech poaching

Ms Zuboff can get overheated with her metaphors; an extended passage with tech executives as Spanish conquistadors and the rest of us as indigenous peoples is frankly ridiculous

The British in India: Gilmour's book typifies revisionist history writing

Gilmour reconstructs the lives of the Britons in India with loving detail but one misses the distance that separated the rulers from the ruled

How paradise was lost

Radha Kumar's accounts convey the deep sense of loss of dignity and respect among a people subjected daily to demeaning encounters with security forces. This has to change for any progress to be made

AIDS memoir

Avahan, the focused AIDS prevention initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was at the forefront of this mammoth public health battle

Travels and travails on the LoC

This book is, ultimately, a useful and interesting read for students of India-Pakistan relations