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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

Book review: How Maruti Udyog came close to acquiring Hyundai in 1999
Updated On : 12 Jan 2018 | 11:26 PM IST

Portraits of artists

Book review of 'The Book of Chocolate Saints'

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Updated On : 11 Jan 2018 | 11:51 PM IST

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

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Updated On : 11 Jan 2018 | 9:39 AM IST

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

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Updated On : 10 Jan 2018 | 11:14 PM IST

Many faces of nationalism

This is an anthology of the writings of political leaders, poets, philosophers and men of letters

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Updated On : 09 Jan 2018 | 10:58 PM IST

Mostly soot, little illumination

Book review of 'On the trail of the black: Tracking corruption'

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Updated On : 09 Jan 2018 | 3:36 AM IST

Animosities without end

Book review of 'Enemies And Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017'

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Updated On : 07 Jan 2018 | 11:38 PM IST

'The Islamic Connection' captures Salafi influence in South Asia and Gulf

Book review of 'The Islamic Connection: South Asia and the Gulf'

'The Islamic Connection' captures Salafi influence in South Asia and Gulf
Updated On : 05 Jan 2018 | 11:27 PM IST

Monetary Policy in India: Decoding India's monetary economics

Book review of 'Monetary Policy in India: A modern macroeconomic perspective'

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Updated On : 04 Jan 2018 | 11:35 PM IST

US and China's 'entangling embrace'

Book review of 'The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom'

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Updated On : 03 Jan 2018 | 10:56 PM IST

A perfectionist's imperfect mind

Book review of 'Imperfect'

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Updated On : 02 Jan 2018 | 11:10 PM IST

A macroeconomist's take on education

The analysis of data from the past yields flawed insights about the future in times of structural shifts

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Updated On : 01 Jan 2018 | 10:57 PM IST
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Updated On : 31 Dec 2017 | 11:05 PM IST

Year End Specials: The business books of 2017 worth reading

Fair warning: These books are not beach reads, but they do make significant contributions to the fields they cover

Year End Specials: The business books of 2017 worth reading
Updated On : 29 Dec 2017 | 10:54 PM IST

Book releases to look forward to in 2018

There are several books that the author wishes were being written but aren't. Fortunately, there's plenty coming up this year that he's eagerly awaiting

Book releases to look forward to in 2018
Updated On : 29 Dec 2017 | 10:44 PM IST

Kamila Shamsie: Islamophobia in the West is undermining civil liberties

Over coffee and rice crackers, Shamsie says that she worries that Islamophobia in the West is undermining civil liberties and fostering radicalism

Kamila Shamsie: Islamophobia in the West is undermining civil liberties
Updated On : 29 Dec 2017 | 10:31 PM IST

A guide to market matrix

Book review of 'Financial Felicity'

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Updated On : 27 Dec 2017 | 11:14 PM IST

The rumblings of resentment

Book review of 'The Second Anglo-Sikh War 1848-49'

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Updated On : 26 Dec 2017 | 10:58 PM IST

Simplifying the Chinese miracle

Book review of 'Becoming China: The Story Behind the State'

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Updated On : 25 Dec 2017 | 11:04 PM IST

Dissecting the Quran

Book review of 'What The Qur'an Meant'

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Updated On : 24 Dec 2017 | 9:41 PM IST