Page 10 - Book Reviews

The CIA Book Club reveals how the West won minds behind the Iron Curtain

How the CIA, instead of pursuing scandalous swashbuckling interventions, smuggled books to weaken the Iron Curtain and offer Eastern Europe a glimpse of an alternative future

Mehran Gul's debut book decodes the innovation ecosystem through its people

We see the United States as the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life, and most of the companies that created them are based there. But is that changing

The Trial That Shook Britain: How a court-martial led to India's freedom

The tactical contradictions that doomed earlier revolutionary movements found their dramatic resolution in Bose's audacious gamble with the INA

The Conscience Network: Fighting the emergency and the US battlefront

The element of equivalence between then and now is probed delicately but bravely by this book which revisits the Emergency and the resistance to it from a new angle

Growth must mean jobs, value addition and economic stability: Sitharaman

At the launch of A World in Flux, FM Nirmala Sitharaman said India's top priority is quality growth focused on jobs, value addition and sustainability

A World in Flux: Sitharaman flags need to reshape institutions for present

At the launch of 'A World in Flux', Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said multilateral institutions are now in limbo and stressed the urgent need to reshape them for today's rapidly evolving world

Children of Radium: 'Digging for Trauma' in Nazi Germany's History

In the course of his research, Dunthorne makes multiple visits to Germany and tries to retrace and recreate his great-grandfather's life

Lifequake: Tarini Mohan's book about what came after, not miracles

She writes with remarkable lucidity about the estrangement of living in a body that no longer responds the way it once did, of the disjuncture between intention and execution

H.I.T. Investing: A new book the balance between purpose and profit

It is hard to fathom how any organisation could build a sustainable business by offering high-quality products at affordable prices, but many have done just that. H.I.T. Investing tells their stories

OTP Please: Vandana Vasudevan exposes hard truths of the ecommerce economy

From online marketplaces using data to harm local businesses to the suffering that lies behind the glossy growth story that startups tell, Vandana Vasudevan exposes the hard truth of platform economy

The Johnson & Johnson Files: Unhealthy truths and defective hip implants

A tale of defective hip implants exposes India's weak medical oversight - and how multinationals treat Indian patients worse than those in rich countries

The Mission: Tim Weiner's book explains how the CIA lost its way

Throughout The Mission, Weiner hammers on an agency that seems to be repeatedly blinded by its sense of American supremacy

Lesley Downer's new book offers a grand panoramic tour of Japan's history

Japan has received far more than its share of natural disasters, most massive earthquakes, volcano eruptions, gigantic tsunamis and ravaging fires

One in a Billion: Sonal Holland's journey of popularising wine in India

If you believe in an idea and know it makes sense, don't give up - for Sonal C Holland, believing in her idea meant putting wine on India's map and inspiring a whole new community of wine lovers

Vivek Banerji's book shows how to reap insight from information overload

Navigating through tons of data to uncover hidden patterns is a critical skill in this day and age, and the key is to look beyond data dashboards

Hostile Homelands: Azad Essa's book traces India-Israel ties before BJP era

The author, who is based in New York, notes that India's arms imports from Israel rose by 175 per cent between 2015 and 2019

The Stoic Capitalist: Ancient Greek philosophy meets the American Dream

The ancient Greek philosophy lives on as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Here's how to use its principles to handle real-life situations and build a life of your dreams

2024: Could the US presidential election have gone any other way?

The authors end up arguing that things were not so fated, but reading what they have to report, I couldn't help feeling those political insiders had a point

Widows: Schipper's eight chapters offer deep insight into grieving, rights

The eight chapters of Schipper's magisterial work offers a deep understanding into such issues as the kind of grieving is considered acceptable for a widow

Shattered Lands: Sam Dalrymple uncovers the subcontinent's dark realities

Sam Dalrymple's book contextualises the shared history of the subcontinent and reminds us of its many dark realities