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The Death of Truth review: How fake US election news generated more readers

One would have expected more literary references and a historical interpretation of what led to the Trump phenomenon

CM who lives to fight another day

Naveen Patnaik has survived so long as chief minister because he knows which battles to fight and which ones to postpone for a later date

Tamil Nadu's politics of welfare

The question remains, though: Why did it work so well in Tamil Nadu and not in the northern states?

The fault lies not in our tech

Your Happiness Was Hacked is an interesting look into the way technology has overtaken our lives, but it takes its premise too far

Scams deconstructed

This book describes interesting cases of fraud, some of which you will marvel for their ingenuity. One is the long-firm fraud, writes Sanjay Kumar Singh

What role do teachers play in education?

More than 85 per cent of the nation's children attend public schools, yet decades of privatising have damaged public education

Indians, Indians everywhere

Chinmay Tumbe's book 'India Moving - A History of Migration', the Foreword to which is written by Arvind Subramanian, former Chief Economic Advisor, is a breeze to read

Legacy is far more than inheritance

Daughters of Legacy seeks to answer questions around the challenges and perks of handling age-old legacies

'In the end, it all works'

How India Works is a precise compendium of the challenges that the expat, with some pluck and understanding, can transform into triumphs at the Indian workplace

Liberalism & its contradictions

The author's dismay about the twilight of liberal democracy in India is deepened by the awareness that intolerance and bigotry against the Muslims is not limited to the ignorant and obscurantists

The aftershocks of 2008

One of the great strengths of Mr Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature of the European and American financial systems

Anthony Horowitz's reliably authentic prequel to the first James Bond novel

Many took literary liberties with Bond, moulding and modernising him with debatable success

The contents of global discontents

A compilation of essays written by notable economists, the book spans a range of issues, from inequality to globalisation to market failures

The face of the refugee

My Country is an essential, though disturbing read for a diverse readership today, since we live in a time when the blurring of international boundaries online is only matched by the building of walls

What our DNA foretells

The book is brilliantly lucid in its explanations of methodology, and specific studies. It's written from a standpoint of humility.

Pakistan's military-democracy complex

Did the civilian rulers of Pakistan learn any lessons from their experiences at the hands of military dictators?

From rags to ill-gotten riches

Just how much of this notorious reputation is historical fact and how much is Hollywood (or neocolonialist) fantasy is hard to say, and "City of Devils," shows signs of being exhaustively researched

Love and longing in urban India

"The Party" is based on the subject of Indians' unstinted admiration for those who have made it good in a foreign land

The Billionaire Raj: Cricket to elections, how money has changed everything

Most books of this kind have an overarching theme but perhaps India is too complex for a single theme to dominate a book that is full of so many disparate experiences

Shades of political violence

The author suggests that this has, at least in part, to do with the district's long history of vendetta as memorialised in traditional ballads