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The Russians are coming
If you are bewildered by this hydra-headed controversy, this book offers a lucid refresher
Getting the best from clients
Marketing literature tends to pontificate on themes like customer intimacy. Mr Parameswaran chooses the story-telling approach to exhume narratives involving the likes of Hemu Ramiah and Azim Premji
Anatomy of a pogrom
"Kishinev pogrom," a "dreadful moment" in Jewish Diaspora life, Steven J Zipperstein writes in his impressive, heart-wrenching new book
Beauty, bad temper and scandal in a riveting look at Princess Margaret
The wisdom of the book, and the artistry, is in how Brown subtly expands his lens from Margaret's misbehaviour
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The Rajneesh Chronicles: A look inside the criminal world of Rajneeshpuram
Journalist Win McCormack's The Rajneesh Chronicles, is a formidable tome of ground-level reportage from the 1980s to late 2000s
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Aadhaar's Orwellian threat
The discussion on India begins with a fascinating analysis of how the Constituent Assembly debated including privacy as a fundamental right
Decoding the Sage
Mr Yefei's book is an investment manager's delight, drawing freely from Mr Buffet's annual addresses to provide insights into the man's investment style
Why revolutions happen
Yet each century, and especially the 20th, has seen a deluge of revolutions
Yankees in the subcontinent
Raghavan examines not only the "high politics" of foreign and defence policy but also the economic, ideological and cultural dimensions of the US role and their impact
North Korea: The forbidden country
Many of the observations in the book are striking. 'In DPRK, it is opposite: Everything is forbidden, until you are told that it is allowed'
'Intertwined Lives': Biography of PN Haksar lacks an assessment of his role
The author claims to 'have deliberately eschewed the temptation to be judgmental'. The temptation can't have been very strong in unabashed hagiography
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The unexciting story of Ujjivan
The way the book is structured is a little problematic
Imran unplugged
They are a way for Reham to illustrate that Imran does not have what it takes to be the leader of a truly Islamic nation
The case for UBI
Several recent books have provided good background briefings for UBI prograe
Amal Clooney & Barack Obama: Celebrities with clay feet
Both Obama and Clooney have a side that contradicts the freedom of speech they espouse, and it diminishes them, writes Karan Thapar in his new book Devil's Advocate
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi: The two faces of the BJP
Nor was Mr Vajpayee's power unchallenged. There was always Mr Advani, who Mr Vajpayee secretly (and sometimes not so secretly) resented, who encouraged dissent within the cabinet
Football's new capitalists
Most of us take European football's foreign owners as a fact of life, but their rise is a recent phenomenon - about two decades old - and they have changed the face of the sport dramatically
Faith-based felon
Anurag Tripathi attempts to lift the lid off such heinous misdemeanours in a baldly titled new book, Dera Sacha Sauda and Gurmeet Ram Rahim: A Decade-Long Investigation
Putin vs the US 'reset'
In the wake of Russia's 2008 war with Georgia, the Obama administration attempted to reboot relations with the Kremlin
The man who dressed Mick Jagger
The Nutters suit, unlike others on the Row, was cut for flash: tight-waisted and small-chested to emphasise the body
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