Page 119 - Book Reviews
Evolution of people management
Book review of CEO Chess Master or Gardener: How Game-Changing HR Reforms Created a New Future for Bank of Baroda
Prying open history
Book review of Reporter: A Memoir
Fuzzy logic for the liberal arts
Scott Hartley makes the case that it's those people who have college degrees in the humanities are the ones who have created the most successful, creative business ideas in recent times
Alternative facts on the nuclear deal
Book review of 'A Debate to Remember: The US-India Nuclear Deal'
The Punjabi-uncle way of peacemaking
In essence, the book makes a pitch for a new India-Pakistan peace process, led by what Mr Durrani describes as a 'group of wise men' trusted by both countries' national security establishment
The mentor of Narendra Modi's BJP
Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee's biography has been arranged in chronological fashion, starting in the years that open the 20th century
Deep thinking on the Indian Ocean
The strong theme that emerges from the essays is the tension between China's stated goals of economic development and degree to which it has been unable to convince India of sincerity of its intention
Paying the price for foreign aid
Indian officials come across as being surprisingly entrepreneurial in securing aid
Globalisation & the rise of Trump
The book is a timely polemic against globalisation and marketisation, not a document meant to withstand the test of time
Harish Kapadia's book on key expeditions in Himalayas is a compelling read
One of the moving accounts of expiditions in this book is by the legendary Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner, entitled 'Odyssey on Nanga Parbat'
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'Conspiracy' book review: The fall of a media empire
Conspiracy is the story of how the modern media can be subdued. And that is ironical
A unique copyright war
The book chronicles the extraordinary journey of how Bharati's poems and works were popularised on stage as a run-up to the independence struggle by nationalists and theatre personalities
India through epitaphs
Mr Bedi writes with flair on film stars, and meticulously chronicles their humble beginnings and work in what was then Bombay before gaining success in film
The ascent of malaria
Fever also makes the compelling case that the epidemiology of malaria has historically been rooted in environmental change.
Understanding Netanyahu
If there is a master key to cracking the Bibi code, this insightful and readable book argues, it is his identity as someone who has always stood outside the mainstream
'Reimagining Pakistan' book review: Outpourings of a jaded campaigner
Husain Haqqani's latest book says nothing that other scholars have not said before, nor does he offer a new course for his troubled country
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Bridging the optimism gap
The book is well worth reading nonetheless (Bill Gates and Warren Buffett both say they loved it) and the broad theses seems like an excellent antidote to the global pandemic of pessimism
Great thinkers and the 2008 crisis
The burden of the book is to examine how these economists would view the world of today - how they would have reacted to the policies adopted by governments and central banks to deal with the crisis
The hazards of idealism
The Moralist is a fluid account that feels shorter than its 600-plus pages. Despite its length, there isn't a passage that drags or feels superfluous
Travails With The Alien: When Satyajit Ray considered suing Spielberg
A book accounting Satyajit Ray's failed attempts to make a sci-fi film in Hollywood is a poignant reminder of his gullibility when it came to the business practices of the American film world
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