Book Reviews

The book opens with Mr Zaidi's journey to meet a mysterious figure who people call Akka, once a key aide to one of Mumbai's mob bosses Varadarajan Mudaliar

Yiyun Li is an award-winning Chinese-American author with multiple novels and short story collections to her name

This book attempts to track contours of relationship against this backdrop. But the author cautions that it is principally a study of US foreign policy & the American side of the US-China relationship

A new book unpacks the ideological ascent of nationalist movements and their shared transnational strategy

Sven Beckert's sweeping global history reframes capitalism as a centuries-long, often violent world-making force - rich in detail, ambitious in scope, and certain to provoke debate

Mashelkar and Borde argue that true innovation doesn't cut corners or chase exclusivity. It expands access, raises quality and proves that efficiency and equity can coexist

People, says Mr Housel, rarely make grave spending mistakes when trying to meet basic needs. Misjudgments arise once they graduate to the realm of discretionary spending

In the race to build a big business, why companies must avoid doing everything moderately well

A sharp, immersive look at phone fraud networks, their victims, and the hidden economies that keep them alive

Simon Winchester's The Breath of the Gods explores how wind has shaped exploration, disaster, innovation, and imagination, even as its future remains uncertain

Uma Das Gupta's history of Santiniketan traces Tagore's educational vision, the making of Vishva-Bharati, and the challenges that shaped his alternative to nationalist orthodoxy

A timely collection reflects on democratic ideals, coalition failures, federalism and the need for active citizenship as India debates the future of its political culture

The book he has written seeks to weave together the history of the climate movement over the past few decades and within those the role WRI has played in it

As political parties continue to scramble to design women-friendly welfare schemes and campaign speeches, women have begun to wield their vote as an instrument of assertion

Ms Gupta's selection captures not the speeches alone but the parry and thrust that goes on between the treasury and Opposition benches. CPI (M) leader, late Sitaram Yechury never disrupted parliament

A balanced yet probing biography traces Francis Crick's brilliant scientific leaps and human flaws, revealing the mind behind DNA's discovery without fully interrogating his more troubling ideas

In a sense, the book is a kind of quiet revolution, reclaiming the voice and identity of Indian girls across generations

Mr Teltumbde takes us through his experience inside jail and how it shattered his preconceived notions about imprisonment

The strength of Searches, despite its banal moments, lies in the breathing space allowed to each digital experiment without judgments or definitive conclusions

Using only the sparest of prose, this hypnotically tense and compelling book becomes an astonishingly moving portrait of a man's life, the Booker Prize judges said of their winning choice