Page 94 - Book News

Ideas of Hinduism

Book review: Hinduism in India

Reorienting the welfare state

The UBI has acquired increasing acceptance in policy circles as a tool to curb poverty

Universal truths

This book stitches together a history of physics from Newton to Einstein

Through colonial lenses

The Last Mughal exposed a serious weakness amongst Indian historians

Portrait of a thin-skinned president

Book review of Richard Nixon: The Life

RBI Lost in transmission

After nationalisation, RBI lost control of interest rate transmission mechanism

Unwelcome guests

Deepak Unnikrishnan's novel-in-stories narrates a series of metamorphoses

Demolishing notebandi, brick by brick

The book has a detailed, unbiased analysis of the design as well as the impact of demonetisation

The quintuple Indian spy

It throws light on World War II, Indian freedom struggle and communist movement

A tryst with rocketry

Though the book is an interesting read about the formation of ISRO

Why inequality is a threat to governance

Book review: The Crisis of the Middle Class Constitution

The Godfather syndrome

'Goondas' flourish where Indian democracy fails, says Vir Sanghvi

Apartheid, Hitler and other stories

The title of the book is a factual description of Mr Noah's birth

Borderline cases

Mr Damodaran sets out to write about the sleepy towns and villages on country's periphery

The sporting spirit

The book is divided into five sections but it tackles broadly two themes

Human biases in data mining

Opposing views on what to do about the data we create

Zoe Greenberg: A blueprint for feminism

The main proposition of Dear Ijeawele is that feminism is a project that necessarily binds mothers

Globalisation in another age

Book review: Ayya's Accounts

Black money conundrums

The author tends to discount the widely accepted reasons for the rise of the black economy

Aurangzeb, unreconstructed myth

This is a very disappointing book on a very important subject. Aurangzeb still awaits his historian