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Muhammad Ali in the details
Muhammad Ali was conscious about leaving behind a rich legacy and he hoarded memories.
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A conundrum called "Britishness"
This book is part of a new "ethnic noir" genre in publishing and follows a spate of memoirs by prominent Asians and Afro-Caribbeans
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Between god and state
The author devotes considerable space examining religious organisations engaged in providing public services
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Creating the US Supreme Court
Life of Marshall reminds us of the urgent importance of Roberts's efforts to persuade his colleagues to unite around a shared commitment to defending legitimacy of SC by rising above partisan politics
GenNext in Indian politics
In her profiles of Rahul Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ms Sahgal refuses to engage with the question of why these leaders' constituencies, Amethi and Guna respectively, continue to be backward
Small steps in energy transition
For someone who doesn't know anything about the mess in Jharia, this comprehensive account offers much interesting information
Analysing what ails America
Someday, an intellectual historian cite both these books to lament that the contemporaries are not as eloquent that arose in Trump's era to combat the threats to our way of life
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The Parivar's mastermind
Kingshuk Nag, author of this biography, has looked at 2019 exclusively from the prism of identity politics
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City of poets
Academic readers (historians or literary critics) might find the book 'Beloved Delhi' to not be fully satisfying, and indeed having read it, one is left thirsting for more
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Peace and war
A Chill in the Air is less action packed but more thoughtful. It covers just two years, 1939 and 1940, and captures the politics and the atmospherics from the plazas to the palazzos
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What is Pakistan?
The book examines the "political mythology" around Pakistan's raison d'etre ("Why Pakistan?") and raises the question: "Who is a Pakistani?"
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Michelle Obama opts for empowerment over politics
Michelle Obama puts to rest any speculation about her political ambitions
Book review: The rise of passive resistance
The author observes that Gandhi "learnt the important lesson that Indian crowds could be very violent" and that non-violence was not intrinsic to the culture of the sub-continent
Alan Greenspan's ode to creative destruction
The book barely mentions Mr Trump beyond condemning his "dangerous" trade policies
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Two-century-old journey of the Quantum riddle
Newton believed light was a particle, and Huygens believed light was a wave. Both were correct but this was not acceptable to the 17th-century scientists
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More on winning friends and influencing people
Even if the central thought is nothing new, the good thing is The Challenge Culture has a storytelling tone and is an easy read
We need to talk
Most people in Delhi would remember where they were when they heard the news of the 2012 gang-rape case
For whom the bell tweets
So fundamental, in fact, that technological innovation - another universal human experience - is often prompted by war
Democracy detached from the people
While the book's focus is on western democracies, it will resonate in India
How the United States achieved world leadership
We wouldn't know where to begin recreating something like today's system of international order because we have a flawed understanding of its history
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