Page 120 - Book Reviews
Inside Obama's White House
Mr Obama's willingness to be honest about the West's imperial past led conservative critics to accuse him of conducting an "apology tour," a meretricious dodge
'Beyond Dharma': Wendy Doniger on spirit of dissent in ancient Hindu texts
Wendy Doniger demonstrates how the spirit of dissent encouraged by the scientific temper displayed in ancient Hindu texts is being pitted against the 'forces of repressive dharma'
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Bill Clinton and James Patterson have written a thriller, and it's good
The book opens with a charged scene in which President Jonathan Duncan is participating in a mock hearing to prepare for a congressional inquiry investigating the botched attempt to capture a terroris
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Qandeel in the wind
Book review of The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch
Degrees of legitimacy
Book review of RSS 360°: Demystifying Rashtriya Swamaysevak Sangh
Global and local jihad
Though ISIS has been incapacitated in Iraq and Syria, Mr Johny argues that this is by no means the end of the story for this global jihadist grouping
Attention for sale
Book review of The Attention Merchants: The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads
Intoxication down the ages
The pub crawl can get a little exhausting, and the reader can get bloated on the relentless whimsy
A Dalit family finds happiness
Reading Narendra Jadhav's Outcaste: A Memoir was no source of discomfort
'Factfulness' book review: The world is not really as bad as you think
'Factfulness' offers a booster inoculation against the prevailing irrational pessimism
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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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