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Lahore at the crossroads

Ian Talbot and Tahir Kamran have produced an empathetic guide to a remarkable city

Big data: Big concerns

Cathy O'Neil brings in interesting human stories to explain risks of indiscriminate use of big data

Note ban sung blue

Demonetisation: The Economists Speak is a collection of articles written by noted Indian economists

South Asia's zero-sum war

Regarding the Mumbai attacks, MacDonald tells us that the CIA turned a 'blind eye' to the LeT's role

Yes he did

Jonathan Chait argues that Obama's accomplishments will survive

Dwight Garner: The stuff of burning desire

Nicotine, is the relapse cigarette

Sacred laissez-faire

An economist makes a cogent argument for a free market in belief and religion

Don't lean in, write your own rules

If women want to get ahead, they might have to build their own system

A time-travelling flâneur

A frequently-ignored aspect Banerjee explores is the multiculturalism of south Calcutta

Leaders in their wonder years

The author's discoveries about leadership cannot be called revelatory

The hidden revolution

The book is a testament to the durability of ideas propagated by Western institutions

Nilanjana S Roy: Where the wild things are

Kyo Maclear's Birds Art Life is such an unusual memoir

Is Edward Snowden a spy?

Edward Jay Epstein has produced a long, detailed book elaborating on his theory

West Asia in the age of Jihad

Journalist Patrick Cockburn provides an incisive & unsparing analysis of the region's conflict zones

Einstein's quantum leap back

This biography of Einstein is built around that quirk of intuition ossifying into dogmatism

Dissecting the Indian-American diaspora

The book is colossal in its effort to understand Indians in America beyond Rajat Gupta, Indira Nooyi

I read 40 books last year. Here's what I learned

I turned 40 this year and reading these books was my version of the so-called midlife crisis

A spy-eye view of Pakistan

The book is more than just a historiographical recounting of Pakistan's birth and subsequent journey

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Barbarians at the Gate

Books have become like fortnightly magazines where sales are based on the cover story

The US-China confrontation

A history of the complicated US-China relationship since 1776