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'Evil in the Mahabharata' book review: Whose dharma is it, anyway?
Ambiguities rest quite easily within the many layered narratives of the epic, at peace with the contradictory messages
'Narratives and Numbers' book review: The fine art of valuation
Professor Damodaran's usage of the first person throughout the book may be unconventional for a business book but is entirely warranted
'The Hollow Kingdom' book review: Jihad is a radical misunderstanding
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Book review: Can US President Donald Trump be impeached?
What makes Trump immune is that he is not a president within the context of a healthy republican government. He is a cult leader of a movement that has taken over a political party
Book review: Bibek Debroy's translation of the Ramayana is easy to navigate
Debroy explains that Ayana in Sanskrit means journey or progress and hence the Ramayana is the story of Rama's journey or progression
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'How India Lost Her Freedom' review: Nationalist's eye view of colonialism
Pandit Sunderlal is not a professional historian, and this book may not be of great interest to students of history because the story is well known
Book review 'Born to be Hanged': Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by the book
The first half of the book mostly focuses on Bhutto's impassioned speeches at the United Nations, especially after the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars
A goat for our times: A review of Perumal Murugan's new book 'Poonachi'
The book is more than political criticism, Murugan explores eco-criticism and eco-feminism
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'A Century is Not Enough' book review: Dada's modest innings
Unfortunately, the poignance of an outcast's rise to beloved leader is missing from this book
'Laid to Rest' book review: Reliving Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death
All in all, this is a book only for people who are seriously obsessed with Subhas Chandra Bose, and how he met his end
'Behemoth' book review: We are what we manufacture
Capitalism, naturally, takes advantage of such increasingly swift and secretive moves
Book review: The sense of a woman through Deepa Narayan's 'Chup'
Chup: Breaking the Silence About India's Women explores the ways in which Indian society reinforces the negative views women harbour about themselves. An exclusive excerpt
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'From Command to Empathy' book review: Emotional Quotient for beginners
The fact is this: Emotional Intelligence is a powerful relationship instrument and the basic rules remain the same whether you are in the age of disruption or that of organisation
The 'establishment' Communist
This is not an autobiography or even a memoir in the strictest sense. It is a collection of his recollections, randomly distributed.
'Indian Instincts' book review: India, up close and partial
In other words, Ms Chatterji, the writer of the book under review, is earnest about her mission
'Straight Talk on Trade' book review: We are all mercantilists now
Interestingly, Mr Rodrik's argument is not with such populists as President Trump or the British Conservative Party leaders who championed the cause of leaving the European Union
'Enlightenment Now' review: Pinker continues to see the glass half full
Improvements in health have bettered the human condition enormously
'Widows of Vidarbha' book review: Harvesting the living dead
Strap: Kota Neelima's book fails to capture the depth of one of India's biggest human tragedies
Ajoy Bose's book on Beatles is an account of a flirtation that went wrong
What went wrong between the Beatles and the Maharishi?
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Book review: Shadow boxing in Af-Pak
In the circumstances, the war became 'a humbling case study in the limits of American power'