Page 9 - Book News

Behind the good wife

Gandhi's great-grandson recreates Kasturba's life from her diary and presents a woman bound by a patriarchal society but hardly a doormat

Valley of Words Book Awards: 'Tagore & Gandhi' wins in English non-fiction

In the fiction category, Anees Salim's 'The Odd Book of Baby Names' and Neelakshi Singh's 'Khela' were adjudged the best in English and Hindi, respectively

India-China: Line of actual conflict

The book overcomes the challenge of juxtaposing multiple actors and catalysts that play a crucial role in defining the direction of India-China relations and the future of the disputed boundary

Arun Jaitley's India: A pol's stump handbook

The thoughts of the former finance minister compiled in a book could prove to be a handy guide for the many BJP spokespersons for their public and media appearances

A post-crisis understanding of state capitalism

Has the Washington Consensus failed? Lalita Som's book explores this debate from the prism of case studies of eight countries, including the BRICS

Weak spots in the Chinese miracle

Frank Dikotter's new book puts the spotlight on the many vulnerabilities that bedevil China and could lead to an unravelling of its increasingly debt-fuelled economy

Russian evolution

Western countries may have provided too little support for post-Soviet reform, but they hardly isolated Russia, as Figes claims

The voyage that never ends

Bengali novelist Samaresh Bose's quest for the 'celestial blinkers' that blind millions has contemporary resonance

Fountain pens and national ambitions: The forgotten story of India Ink

From the names of pen manufacturers to the minute differences in their makes -Inked in India is a marvellous journey for both the connoisseur and the uninitiated

Period pieces: A world where you can't talk about menstruation

Human rights lawyer and writer Farah Ahamed's book is a profound exploration of this topic

Leopards in their labyrinths

Crooked Cats is a fascinating, and occasionally entertaining, micro-study of all aspects of the big-cat-human encounter

The rise and rise of passive investing

With the passive investment revolution upon us, Robin Wigglesworth's book offers a useful guide

Inside Trump's 'cartoonishly chaotic' presidency

The backbiting led to constant personnel turnover, a dreary parade of firings, resignations and defenestrations

Crossing the LGBTQIA+ bar

Maya Sharma attempts to capture narratives of the Queer experience beyond the big city setting

India's roller-coaster ride to growth

Professor Balakrishnan dwells on key events and indicators rather than drawing up an extensive listing of milestones and data

Tencent: Rise and hubris

Lulu Yilun Chen's book takes a detailed look at the Chinese digital giant's birth, its rise, and market battles

A pracharak's take on Partition

Ram Madhav's book offers some healing, reconciliation and closure on the events leading up to Independence

Insiders in the development story

Anchoring Change celebrates the grassroots interventions over 75 years but it could have had a more diverse set of organisations and initiatives

The power of populism

The book's title refers to a 'middle out' philosophy in which the govt creates a more democratic economy by focusing on ways to enlarge the middle and working classes at the expense of the wealthy

India's China war: The next generation

Pravin Sawhney's book set in 2024 presents an entirely credible account of a robotic assault on India