Page 70 - Book Review
In search of Hinduism
Hindol Sengupta's Being Hindu: Old Faith, New World and You is a breezy and ambitious book
Wisdom of the hollow tree
The Leadership Sutra attempts to simplify seemingly abstract mythological stories into tangible principles for the world of business
The Dalai Lama's tragedy: A brother's story
This a the story of Gyalo Thondup, the elder brother of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who now lives in Kalimpong and runs an ancient noodle-making factory adjacent to his compound
History through the paper trail
Paper holds the world together. It wipes our foreheads, cleans up spills, bags groceries and disposes of waste products
Violence, guilt and shame in Pakistan
The bustling metropolis, which allegedly served as the launch pad for jihadis who attacked Mumbai in 2008, is the primary setting of Shandana Minhas' second novel
Business & palace intrigues in Nepal
Binod Chaudhary's Making It Big lifts the veil over how business was done in Nepal when it was a monarchy
South America's drug-fuelled holocaust
Gangster Warlords is Mr Grillo's second book, coming five years after El Narco, in which he analysed Mexican drug cartels
A people's history of the Cultural Revolution
Frank Dikotter's The Cultural Revolution, the third volume of his work on the Mao years, challenges the Chinese people to address those missing years
Yann Martel in Pi's shadow
Yann Martel's The High Mountains of Portugal forces you to think deeply about love, loss, faith, suffering and pain
The realities of realty
Sushil Kumar Sayal's account of the rampant corruption and irregularities in real estate extends to discussing the hush-hush nexus between some builders and bureaucrats
Lost opportunities in Indonesian ties
The book Masala Bumbu, ably edited by ambassador Gurjit Singh was published in 2015, coinciding with the "Sahabat India Festival of India in Indonesia" held that year
Frenemies of the state
In Alter Egos, Mark Landler, who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times, comes down emphatically on the side of an interventionist Ms Clinton
A reader's Happy Place
Subsequent essays map the history of Indian writing in English and raise critical questions on the identity of the Indian writer
The crisis of the Left
Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya in his book Government as Practice seeks to provide a novel analytical tool to assess the experience
Up close & pedestrian
Memoirs of retired civil servants are usually an interesting read simply because they offer an insight into functional style of the govts with which they have been associated during their careers
Why governments evade the 'rich tax'
Authors Kenneth Scheve & David Stasavage find that there is little evidence to suggest that increasing inequality leads countries to adopt higher taxes on the rich
Debunking bad science
Ben Goldacre specifically targets pseudoscience, fallacies and woo and he does so with a trademark blend of logic, wit, snark and sarcasm that mocks bad science
Senior moments for baby boomers
Michael Kinsley's Old Age is attractively designed and just the right size to slip into one's pocket or purse
Reporting from the frontlines
Shyam Bhatia's Bullets and Bylines is a tribute to all those journalists who risk their lives for the sake of telling the story just as it happened
Defending the founding fathers
Rajmohan Gandhi takes his arguments forward. His quarrel this time is with two equally fascinating characters - Swami Sachidanand and Perry Anderson
