Page 55 - Book Review

Legacy is far more than inheritance

Daughters of Legacy seeks to answer questions around the challenges and perks of handling age-old legacies

'In the end, it all works'

How India Works is a precise compendium of the challenges that the expat, with some pluck and understanding, can transform into triumphs at the Indian workplace

Liberalism & its contradictions

The author's dismay about the twilight of liberal democracy in India is deepened by the awareness that intolerance and bigotry against the Muslims is not limited to the ignorant and obscurantists

Yankees in the subcontinent

Raghavan examines not only the "high politics" of foreign and defence policy but also the economic, ideological and cultural dimensions of the US role and their impact

North Korea: The forbidden country

Many of the observations in the book are striking. 'In DPRK, it is opposite: Everything is forbidden, until you are told that it is allowed'

The case for UBI

Several recent books have provided good background briefings for UBI prograe

Football's new capitalists

Most of us take European football's foreign owners as a fact of life, but their rise is a recent phenomenon - about two decades old - and they have changed the face of the sport dramatically

Faith-based felon

Anurag Tripathi attempts to lift the lid off such heinous misdemeanours in a baldly titled new book, Dera Sacha Sauda and Gurmeet Ram Rahim: A Decade-Long Investigation

Putin vs the US 'reset'

In the wake of Russia's 2008 war with Georgia, the Obama administration attempted to reboot relations with the Kremlin

The man who dressed Mick Jagger

The Nutters suit, unlike others on the Row, was cut for flash: tight-waisted and small-chested to emphasise the body

How India wastes away

Readers might get a faint hint of a stink in their argument linking India's problem of waste to the caste system alone

A prince in Bollywood

If Burman's music endures, it is because he was clear that his music should resonate with the common man

A chronicle of banking reform

The book briefly looks at the years before the period of economic liberalisation, understanding the need for nationalisation, defining the social objectives that the state-owned banks were serving

Neither East nor West: An Iranian rhapsody

Ayatollah Khomeini's ominous words for his country - 'neither East nor West' - turn into altogether less sinister in Ms Pryce's humour-filled telling

Countering the 'rage of Islam' theories

The book is an enlightened condensation of Islamic history and philosophy for those seeking a perspective on the conundrum in which many Muslims find themselves today

The India-Pakistan conundrum

Two macro-facts that the author highlights are, however, relevant for an understanding of continuing hostilities between the two nations in spite of negotiations for peace.

What would Shakespeare have made of Trump?

We learn not simply what Trump tells us about Shakespeare but what Shakespeare tells us about Trump

The rise and rise of East India Company

The most fascinating chapter of this book is the Company's response to the Amboyna massacre

The world in an arc

The book might appear to lack unity of purpose, but the comprehensive collection of pieces definitely opens a window to a wider horizon

Global and local jihad

Though ISIS has been incapacitated in Iraq and Syria, Mr Johny argues that this is by no means the end of the story for this global jihadist grouping