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Decoding the Sage
Mr Yefei's book is an investment manager's delight, drawing freely from Mr Buffet's annual addresses to provide insights into the man's investment style
Why revolutions happen
Yet each century, and especially the 20th, has seen a deluge of revolutions
Yankees in the subcontinent
Raghavan examines not only the "high politics" of foreign and defence policy but also the economic, ideological and cultural dimensions of the US role and their impact
North Korea: The forbidden country
Many of the observations in the book are striking. 'In DPRK, it is opposite: Everything is forbidden, until you are told that it is allowed'
'Intertwined Lives': Biography of PN Haksar lacks an assessment of his role
The author claims to 'have deliberately eschewed the temptation to be judgmental'. The temptation can't have been very strong in unabashed hagiography
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The unexciting story of Ujjivan
The way the book is structured is a little problematic
Imran unplugged
They are a way for Reham to illustrate that Imran does not have what it takes to be the leader of a truly Islamic nation
The case for UBI
Several recent books have provided good background briefings for UBI prograe
Amal Clooney & Barack Obama: Celebrities with clay feet
Both Obama and Clooney have a side that contradicts the freedom of speech they espouse, and it diminishes them, writes Karan Thapar in his new book Devil's Advocate
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi: The two faces of the BJP
Nor was Mr Vajpayee's power unchallenged. There was always Mr Advani, who Mr Vajpayee secretly (and sometimes not so secretly) resented, who encouraged dissent within the cabinet
Football's new capitalists
Most of us take European football's foreign owners as a fact of life, but their rise is a recent phenomenon - about two decades old - and they have changed the face of the sport dramatically
Faith-based felon
Anurag Tripathi attempts to lift the lid off such heinous misdemeanours in a baldly titled new book, Dera Sacha Sauda and Gurmeet Ram Rahim: A Decade-Long Investigation
Putin vs the US 'reset'
In the wake of Russia's 2008 war with Georgia, the Obama administration attempted to reboot relations with the Kremlin
The man who dressed Mick Jagger
The Nutters suit, unlike others on the Row, was cut for flash: tight-waisted and small-chested to emphasise the body
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How India wastes away
Readers might get a faint hint of a stink in their argument linking India's problem of waste to the caste system alone
A prince in Bollywood
If Burman's music endures, it is because he was clear that his music should resonate with the common man
A chronicle of banking reform
The book briefly looks at the years before the period of economic liberalisation, understanding the need for nationalisation, defining the social objectives that the state-owned banks were serving
Are more and more people working meaningless jobs?
Graeber does not claim to know which jobs are useless and which are not; instead he asks workers to weigh in on that themselves
Neither East nor West: An Iranian rhapsody
Ayatollah Khomeini's ominous words for his country - 'neither East nor West' - turn into altogether less sinister in Ms Pryce's humour-filled telling
Countering the 'rage of Islam' theories
The book is an enlightened condensation of Islamic history and philosophy for those seeking a perspective on the conundrum in which many Muslims find themselves today