Page 123 - Book Reviews

'The National Movement' review: Indian nationalism and its contentions

Dr Habib dates the start of the independence struggle from the 1857 uprising, highlighting its socio-economic origins

'The Heart is a Shifting Sea' review: Varieties of Indian matrimony

The Heart Is a Shifting Sea is the culmination of Ms Flock's search for those answers: a heavily reported work of nonfiction centred on three couples

'Why I am a Hindu' review: Song of Hinduism in Shashi Tharoor's new book

Shashi Tharoor's analysis ignores the many nuances of a religion that is facing fresh challenges in modernising India, says Arundhuti Dasgupta

'Nautanki Diaries' book review: Cartographer on a cycle

Mr Frank's book is evident even from the title. The similarities between him and Guevara are also not too stretched

'The Growth Delusion' book review: A pointless tirade against GDP

It is hard to recall the last time someone referred to India as the world most "beautiful" major economy just because it is the world's fastest-growing one

'Odyssey of Courage' book review: Habil Khorakiwala's high five

The book is a treatise on social history of Indian businesses when chips were loaded against any technology- or science-based industry in India of Licence Raj

In 'Brotopia,' Silicon Valley disrupts everything but the boys' club

How nerds became bros is one of the central stories in this book

'Dreamers' book review: How young Indians are changing their world

A new book encapsulates the aspirations that are driving young 'dreamers' in India's swanky urban cities and their rural counterparts

Why Southeast Asia needs new scholarship

It is time to take stock of how relations between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have fared

Book review: Santro's story, from the driver's seat

Mr Subbu said the Santro's Zip Drive version was the first small car to have a power steering

'The Doomsday Machine' review: The nuts and bolts of Armageddon

Two decades since the end of the Cold War, America's nuclear arsenal remains the juggernaut that encourages global proliferation

Pav Singh's '1984' book review: Anti-Sikh riots, for European eyes

He compares the use of phosphorous by mobs to burn the faces of their Sikh victims with the use of this chemical by German bombers over London during the war

'That's What She Said' review: The acknowledgement gap

A book review by Robbie Myers

Nirmal John's 'Breach' reminds us that anyone can be a victim of cybertheft

Nirmal John's thought-provoking book reminds us that in the digital age neither individuals nor companies can be completely safe

Soha Ali Khan's 'The Perils of Being Moderately Famous' is an easy read

While Khan, much like most of her family, has been a Bollywood actor, she isn't as "famous" as her parents

War games on the corporate whiteboard

Book review of The Forward-Looking Manager in a VUCA World

YouTube's viral appeal

Book review of Videocracy: How YouTube Is Changing the World . . . with Double Rainbows, Singing Foxes, and Other Trends We Can't Stop Watching

Discontents of Trumpism

Trump grasped that America is suffering from an epistemological weakness as well as economic ones

Terms like 'womb on rent' censor commercial surrogacy: Anindita Majumdar

Anindita Majumdar, explores the world of commercial surrogacy and discusses her latest book on the subject in this interview with Aditi Phadnis

Citizen Delhi review: A book of half revelations

The book is more forthcoming when it addresses her personal life and marriage