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Ballot box as change agent
Book review of Rasheed Kidwai's 'Ballot: Ten episodes that have shaped India's democracy'
The GSPC jumla
As with Mr Ghosh's earlier co-authored work Gas Wars, Grand Illusion is all over the place with the writer losing focus in some chapters
'A Higher Loyalty' book review: In the throes of a scandal
A Higher Loyalty is the first big memoir by a key player in the alarming melodrama that is the Trump administration
A son remembers his father who served as advisor to Nehru, Indira and Rajiv
The book also casts light on what happened to the 'package deal' offered by Deng Xiaoping to India in 1982
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From a principle to a right
The success of the 1951 general election in terms of providing representation to India in all its complexity was crucial to the stability of the then-young constitutional framework
A tech-tonic shift
Consuming food grain and cooking oil straight from the source made the author realise how much adulteration there was in the market
A Syrian refugee's leap of faith
Melissa Fleming's A Hope More Powerful than the Sea is a close literary counterpart of a 3D documentary
The mystery of 'data capitalism'
The book's central theme is that traditional markets based on money and price are now being replaced by data and information
Surviving Europe's 20th century
Mischka's War provides unconventional but persistently intriguing perspectives on major totalitarian regimes of 20th century
Book review: Meet the dreamers who walked 1,500 miles to stay in America
'The Making of a Dream' is a sweeping chronicle of the immigrant rights movement in which the four walkers took part
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'The Inheritors' book review: Family values seen in entrepreneurship tales
It is easy to feel that the protagonists are sharing their fears and their deepest, heartfelt emotions with readers
Wired for weirdness
Ms Thomson lays out the medical background and the current scientific understanding of the situation, as well as faithfully reporting the subject's first-person lived experiences
How Pakistan got the Bomb
One chapter in the book focuses on how Pakistan acquired nuclear deterrent; it then proceeds to explain Pakistan's proliferation links with Iran, Libya, North Korea
'Skin in the Game' book review: The risk-reward philosophy
The idea of Skin in the Game, which Mr Taleb dwells on in his latest book, is essentially simple
'Victorious Century' book review: The peak of Empire
A book like this one is particularly valuable in an age when history undergraduates often startle their teachers by their ignorance of basic facts
A nation under siege
Much of what Mr Kumar points out is, sadly, the bitter reality of today's India
'Breakout at Stalingrad' earns its place beside classics of war literature
The original version of an autobiographical novel written by a German soldier, and recently discovered in Soviet archives, offers a unique perspective of the epic World War II siege from the soldiers
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'CHUP' book review: Indian women are trained to be silent from birth
The book draws from over 600 detailed interviews with women as well as some men across India's cities and identifies seven key habits that dominate women's everyday lives
'The People vs Democracy' book review: The rise of the populists
Mr Mounk argues that the American president is part of a global wave
'Under The Knife' book review: On the cutting edge
For all the grimness of the subject matter, Dr Van De Laar's style is bracing, even bordering on the comic