After laying the foundation to the UMA model in the first half of the book, Mr Das Gupta offers 28 nuggets, each looking at one aspect of the Indian consumer that has changed
A vibrant triple biography traces how Martha Gellhorn, Rebecca West and Emily Hahn defied convention, blurred fact and fiction, and reshaped war reporting and literary journalism
Three new books use economics to decode behaviour, war and nature - revealing both the power and the limits of economic thinking in explaining our messy world
The NGT's clearance for the Great Nicobar project highlights a widening gap between procedural environmental safeguards and the lived ecological and cultural costs on the ground
A little jab that protects us from some of the deadliest diseases has a fascinating backstory. Ameer Shahul does an admirable job of uncovering compelling ones in his book
Raghavan Srinivasan reclaims the Tamil Bhakti saints as radical poets who challenged caste, ritual authority and hierarchy through powerful Tamil verse
As an openly gay man, Suvir Saran's memoir weaves his personal struggles to find love and belonging with reflections on policy, resulting in a memoir that is brutally honest and partly heartbreaking
At a moment when the so-called fringe has become the mainstream, this book offers a layered account of the erosion of liberty and the severity of our times
A new book traces how Russia's forests shaped its history, literature and power - from religious exiles and empire-building to gulags, nationalism and climate change
As new archaeological finds challenge the dominant narrative of India's antiquity, replacing dogma with pragmatism is the only way to understand the past
