BOOK REVIEW

The new edition makes the exercise more interesting because Mr Parameswaran has added the decade from 2015 to 2025

The Silent Syndicate examines how private equity and global finance are reshaping India's healthcare system, raising questions over ownership, regulation and patient welfare

Sunanda Sen's new book challenges financial liberalisation, arguing that volatile capital flows can constrain policymaking and undermine industrial development in emerging economies

One of the most perceptive chapters in the book relates to international law

The book engages with a long timeline, not restricting itself, as many Mumbai history books do, with just the colonial period

The first English voyages to India ended for want of knowledge of the sea routes

The foundation of the CCP's legitimacy and the social contract it has with the Chinese people is rooted in the term it coined: "One Hundred Years of Humiliation"

It was not as if Tally had a smooth ride. Mr Ahmed points out periods when the company was bloated with numerous senior managers, multiple tiers and delayed decision-making

The best part of Mr Kidwai's book may well be its timing

The experience of living in the Artificial State might feel new, but Lepore says the dynamics are in fact extremely old

The first generation of women of independent India carried within them important fragments of our history

The "best tool" for this diversion from criticism comes from a globally accepted definition of antisemitism endorsed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in 2016

Mr Farooqui describes in detail various aspects of Asia's largest and most famous jail - its food, atmosphere, his inmates and their backstories

Loss and grief are dressed up in impersonal statistics. But Palestinian author Jean Said Makdisi focuses on the grotesque and the suffering of ordinary lives during Israel's occupation of Beirut

The former Chief Election Commissioner of India tells his story with droll humour, elegant prose and, above all, a deep sense of humanity

All was sweet innocent fun for a while. Then the algorithm came along and ruined everything

Myths are comforting because they ask nothing of us; history, on the other hand, asks everything - curiosity, rigour, discipline, the willingness to be wrong

Suresh Narayanan's memoir offers thoughtful lessons in crisis management and leadership, drawing on the Maggi controversy, Covid-19 and crises across global markets

This book on founders and their failures offers flashes of genuine insight but feels incomplete

An account of India's most dangerous serial killer who struck people at night in their deep sleep and remained elusive for years