BOOK REVIEW

Utsav Somani's The Founder Manual offers practical, India-focused guidance on building, funding, scaling and exiting startups without the hype

Vijay Gokhale's China's Wars examines Beijing's use of military coercion and diplomacy, offering insights into China's strategic behaviour and its implications for India

Albinder Singh Dhindsa's Buildit traces Blinkit's rise from a small startup to a quick-commerce giant, offering insights into entrepreneurship and India's digital economy

Regime Change chronicles Donald Trump's turbulent second term, portraying a presidency shaped by power, spectacle, loyalists and mounting political challenges

Stephen Alter's The Fragrance of Rain blends nature writing, ecology and culture to capture the beauty, history and complexity of India's monsoon

Running through the memoir is a sustained inquiry into the meaning of justice in a multilingual, multifaith, and deeply unequal society

Caste has waited out empires, outlasted reform movements, survived the constitutional abolition of untouchability, adapted to the diaspora, found new languages in new countries

Danesh Rana's journey along the Chenab blends memoir, conflict, history and culture, revealing the many stories carried by one of the subcontinent's most evocative rivers

Geopolitical tensions and the US steps to keep China from catching up in AI and in chip technology has created two distinct worlds

The authors render the early years of the revolutionary movement through the life of one participant, the Islamic scholar Mehdi Karroubi

In his memoir, A Room in Bombay, Manil Suri revisits his Bombay childhood, family struggles, sexuality and the letters that shaped his life

The book by S R Praveen, who has been a film critic for many years, is a culmination of years spent watching, questioning and writing about cinema

Does luck fall equally on everyone? You might not think so, but Japanese neuroscientist Nobuko Nakano argues that this is the case

The very drugs that transformed India's health, agriculture, and development now threaten to undermine all three

Julia Eckert's outstanding study on the Shiv Sena explores how the organisation grew via arbitrage in areas that the state could not/did not reach

Ben Mezrich's Checkmate turns the Magnus Carlsen-Hans Niemann chess scandal into a gripping narrative, but factual errors undermine its credibility

Jonathan Wilson's The Power and the Glory traces how the FIFA World Cup evolved from a football tournament into a global stage for power, politics and profit

Diplomat-scholar Aftab Seth offers a glimpse into Indonesia's cultural landscape and, in the process, transcends the narrow confines of one's own upbringing

Bharat Bluff is filled with first-person accounts of scams that allow readers to comprehend the gravity of India's scam economy beyond data

Written in a question-and-answer format, this book attempts to address all the questions you may have about China, its past, and future direction