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Lunch with BS: Historian Sunil Amrith talks about monsoon and migration
The MacArthur "Genius" grant awardee talks to Anjali Puri about Unruly Waters, the book he has just finished writing, and why history matters even more in an era of majoritarian politics
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Paint of taint: How the IPL spot-fixing scandal hurt the gentleman's game
Here's an excerpt from Boria Majumdar's new book 'Eleven Gods and A Billion Indians'
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Why PPP projects fail
The private sector can only take up the risks of project construction whereas the ability to manage the regulatory risk is that of the public sector
Infirmities of the welfare state
The author has x-rayed every beneficiary-target-oriented welfare programme launched by the Indian state for the past 70 years
Ballot box as change agent
Book review of Rasheed Kidwai's 'Ballot: Ten episodes that have shaped India's democracy'
The GSPC jumla
As with Mr Ghosh's earlier co-authored work Gas Wars, Grand Illusion is all over the place with the writer losing focus in some chapters
'A Higher Loyalty' book review: In the throes of a scandal
A Higher Loyalty is the first big memoir by a key player in the alarming melodrama that is the Trump administration
A son remembers his father who served as advisor to Nehru, Indira and Rajiv
The book also casts light on what happened to the 'package deal' offered by Deng Xiaoping to India in 1982
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From a principle to a right
The success of the 1951 general election in terms of providing representation to India in all its complexity was crucial to the stability of the then-young constitutional framework
A tech-tonic shift
Consuming food grain and cooking oil straight from the source made the author realise how much adulteration there was in the market
A Syrian refugee's leap of faith
Melissa Fleming's A Hope More Powerful than the Sea is a close literary counterpart of a 3D documentary
The mystery of 'data capitalism'
The book's central theme is that traditional markets based on money and price are now being replaced by data and information
Surviving Europe's 20th century
Mischka's War provides unconventional but persistently intriguing perspectives on major totalitarian regimes of 20th century
Book review: Meet the dreamers who walked 1,500 miles to stay in America
'The Making of a Dream' is a sweeping chronicle of the immigrant rights movement in which the four walkers took part
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'The Inheritors' book review: Family values seen in entrepreneurship tales
It is easy to feel that the protagonists are sharing their fears and their deepest, heartfelt emotions with readers
Wired for weirdness
Ms Thomson lays out the medical background and the current scientific understanding of the situation, as well as faithfully reporting the subject's first-person lived experiences
How Pakistan got the Bomb
One chapter in the book focuses on how Pakistan acquired nuclear deterrent; it then proceeds to explain Pakistan's proliferation links with Iran, Libya, North Korea
'Skin in the Game' book review: The risk-reward philosophy
The idea of Skin in the Game, which Mr Taleb dwells on in his latest book, is essentially simple
'Victorious Century' book review: The peak of Empire
A book like this one is particularly valuable in an age when history undergraduates often startle their teachers by their ignorance of basic facts
A nation under siege
Much of what Mr Kumar points out is, sadly, the bitter reality of today's India