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'No Spin' review: The fascinatingly candid autobiography of Shane Warne

Shane Warne's tell-all autobiography is every bit as controversial and engrossing as his cricketing career

Two-century-old journey of the Quantum riddle

Newton believed light was a particle, and Huygens believed light was a wave. Both were correct but this was not acceptable to the 17th-century scientists

More on winning friends and influencing people

Even if the central thought is nothing new, the good thing is The Challenge Culture has a storytelling tone and is an easy read

We need to talk

Most people in Delhi would remember where they were when they heard the news of the 2012 gang-rape case

For whom the bell tweets

So fundamental, in fact, that technological innovation - another universal human experience - is often prompted by war

What our extremist politics owes to Batman and Captain America

For those who agree to take it, the journey in The Sky Is Falling isn't as propulsive or as fun as in Biskind's other books

A young-at-heart nonagenarian celebrates life in a new diary

Jan Morris' first diary showcases the great non-fiction writer's ability in her 90s to look at the past with near total recall and yet analyse our muddled present with wit

Babe Ruth, the first modern celebrity

The Big Fella, Jane Leavy's new biography of Babe Ruth, is set amid this rowdy roadshow

Frankenstein at 200: A rare story to pass from literature into common myth

While Frankenstein may have thwarted his creature's desire to procreate, Shelley's novel has birthed a seemingly endless stream of adaptations and riffs

Rockstar Rahman

Book "Notes of a Dream: The authorized biography of A R Rahman" takes you through every phase in the life of this prolific, restless creative genius

Identity and popular politics

Mr Fukuyama describes identity as one's true inner self juxtaposed against the outer world of social norms and rules

Democracy detached from the people

While the book's focus is on western democracies, it will resonate in India

Big cats between state & science

Panna is a dry forest, which at the time wildlife biologist Raghu Chundawat did his most intensive research, 1996 to 2004, saw a substantial recovery of the prey and predator populations

How the United States achieved world leadership

We wouldn't know where to begin recreating something like today's system of international order because we have a flawed understanding of its history

Why Annapurna Devi chose her musical gift over a celebrity husband

Dissonant artistic visions drove Hindustani classical musician Annapurna Devi and her husband, Ravi Shankar, to separation

The banker who hunted Nazis

The book underlines a reality we are discovering today: that even in advanced democracies fascism retains a perilous allure

Murugan's controversial novel 'One Part Woman' now translated into English

For months, Perumal Murugan had been hounded by right-wing Hindu groups that had latched onto an old novel of his, 'One Part Woman' (2010)

And Aadhaar lived happily ever after…

The book is filled with irrelevant gossip about Mr Nilekani's Delhi stint and fails to further critical understanding on Aadhaar

The desi mindset

The most interesting parts of the book constitute sections in which Mr Sardar articulates his love for his homeland, evenings spent gorging gol guppas and paan

Waging war from the Oval Office

Presidents of War is a marvellous narrative that opens with James Madison, the father of the Constitution and a reluctant warrior during the War of 1812