Rajiv Shirali

Sedentary people living in nation-states was never the inevitable outcome of human evolution, argues Sam Miller in his new book

Through a series of essays, Sudeshna Guha's book examines the history of prehistoric and modern-day artefacts and the ethics of heritage-making that nationalises a past bereft of nation states

The term groupthink itself was inspired by such Orwellian words as newspeak and doublethink

People of Chinese origin who were living in Kolkata and other towns in Bengal and Assam, whose ancestors had migrated to India in search of better opportunities, were put in internment camps in 1962.

Rajesh concludes sorrowfully that high-speed trains in China and Japan kill the romance of railway travel

'So, was Trump's entire campaign based on a false narrative'', asks author

Mr Morland offers remarkable insights - albeit entirely from the demographic perspective - into the progress of human society over the past two hundred years

Plato's Alarm Clock, fascinating and easy to read, ends on a sobering note

A chapter on assorted kings and other leaders features a bizarre cast of characters

A thought-provoking even if debatable analysis of the story of globalisation

An account of David Headley's life, often in his own words, provides a useful study in how radicalised youth cross the boundaries into terrorism

Gangster Warlords is Mr Grillo's second book, coming five years after El Narco, in which he analysed Mexican drug cartels

An Oxford historian captures a fascinating world history from an eastern perspective along the 6,400-km-long Silk Road network that connected eastern China and India to the Mediterranean Sea