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In praise of India's money masters
While the book praises the feats of Indian fund managers, the final chapter sounds a warning bell for the future of active management
'The Nationalist', the story of A M Naik, who rebuilt Larsen & Toubro
An adulatory and uncritical tone detracts from the remarkable story
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Remembering Mandela's legacy
The chapters are thematic, each examining the evolution of transformation and national unity, covering the presidency and the Constitution and social and economic challenges
The trouble with liberalism
Liberalism, as he defines it, encompasses the orthodoxy of political elites, whether they lean to the left or the right.
To whom it may concern
The digital language, as spawned by BuzzFeed, Vice, and their ilk, is here to stay. And it is growing faster than ever, thanks to social media, which makes people talk more than ever before
A Time of Madness: A sentimental journey from Lahore to Jalandhar
This narrative is important for many weighty reasons not least the comparison the author makes of the social situation in Pakistan and India just after crossing the border
Lost Connections: Why depression has almost nothing to do with faulty brain
Lost Connections: Uncovering The Real Causes of Depression-And The Unexpected Solutions
Down in Trumpland
Book review of 'Fire And Fury: Inside the Trump White House'
Book review: How Maruti Udyog came close to acquiring Hyundai in 1999
BVR Subbu, former president of Hyundai Motor India, recalls how Maruti Udyog came close to buying Hyundai in this excerpt from Santro: The Car That Built a Company
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Portraits of artists
Book review of 'The Book of Chocolate Saints'
The truth shall prevail?
A large part of Zafar Anjum's book, The Resurgence of Satyam: The Global IT Giant, is dedicated to dissecting and reconstructing the modus operandi of the fraud
How Big Government is harming us
The claim that public sector enterprises... were largely loss-incurring, and continued to incur losses is followed by an interesting study that [these] are, in fact, very profitable
Many faces of nationalism
This is an anthology of the writings of political leaders, poets, philosophers and men of letters
Mostly soot, little illumination
Book review of 'On the trail of the black: Tracking corruption'
Animosities without end
Book review of 'Enemies And Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017'
'The Islamic Connection' captures Salafi influence in South Asia and Gulf
Book review of 'The Islamic Connection: South Asia and the Gulf'
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Monetary Policy in India: Decoding India's monetary economics
Book review of 'Monetary Policy in India: A modern macroeconomic perspective'
US and China's 'entangling embrace'
Book review of 'The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom'
A perfectionist's imperfect mind
Book review of 'Imperfect'
A macroeconomist's take on education
The analysis of data from the past yields flawed insights about the future in times of structural shifts