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'Coffee Can Investing' to help investors find answers to their dilemmas

Besides discussing the coffee can portfolio, the book packs in a number of lessons that investors will find relevant to these times

'Jackie, Janet & Lee' book review: A story of American 'royalty'

Taraborrelli presents a woman of passion, both sexual and emotional, whose facade somehow always remains in place

Farooquee's book explains reality of growing up as a young Muslim in India

A well-timed book underscores the realities of growing up as part of a religious minority in an increasingly polarised country

'The Real Life of the Parthenon' review: Who owns the Elgin Marbles?

Vigderman's approach is informed by Walter Benjamin's concept of an object's aura, a property embedded in time and history

'On the Plateau of the Peak' book review: The art of gurudom

A book by a sibling can scarcely be expected to be objective; one that is commissioned by a commercial publisher even less so

Book review: The unfinished revolution of Ukraine's Maidan protesters

The Ukrainian Night seeks to portray the ideals that animated the Maidan protesters of 2013

'The Sheena Bora Case' book review: Mother of all crimes

Such was the frenzy around the case involving the murder of a good-looking young girl, obviously from a high-income group, allegedly by her mother, who was a queen of Mumbai's high society

'The National Movement' review: Indian nationalism and its contentions

Dr Habib dates the start of the independence struggle from the 1857 uprising, highlighting its socio-economic origins

'The Heart is a Shifting Sea' review: Varieties of Indian matrimony

The Heart Is a Shifting Sea is the culmination of Ms Flock's search for those answers: a heavily reported work of nonfiction centred on three couples

'Why I am a Hindu' review: Song of Hinduism in Shashi Tharoor's new book

Shashi Tharoor's analysis ignores the many nuances of a religion that is facing fresh challenges in modernising India, says Arundhuti Dasgupta

'Nautanki Diaries' book review: Cartographer on a cycle

Mr Frank's book is evident even from the title. The similarities between him and Guevara are also not too stretched

'The Growth Delusion' book review: A pointless tirade against GDP

It is hard to recall the last time someone referred to India as the world most "beautiful" major economy just because it is the world's fastest-growing one

'Odyssey of Courage' book review: Habil Khorakiwala's high five

The book is a treatise on social history of Indian businesses when chips were loaded against any technology- or science-based industry in India of Licence Raj

In 'Brotopia,' Silicon Valley disrupts everything but the boys' club

How nerds became bros is one of the central stories in this book

'Dreamers' book review: How young Indians are changing their world

A new book encapsulates the aspirations that are driving young 'dreamers' in India's swanky urban cities and their rural counterparts

Why Southeast Asia needs new scholarship

It is time to take stock of how relations between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have fared

Book review: Santro's story, from the driver's seat

Mr Subbu said the Santro's Zip Drive version was the first small car to have a power steering

'The Doomsday Machine' review: The nuts and bolts of Armageddon

Two decades since the end of the Cold War, America's nuclear arsenal remains the juggernaut that encourages global proliferation

Pav Singh's '1984' book review: Anti-Sikh riots, for European eyes

He compares the use of phosphorous by mobs to burn the faces of their Sikh victims with the use of this chemical by German bombers over London during the war

'That's What She Said' review: The acknowledgement gap

A book review by Robbie Myers