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Godman to tycoon: A biography that offers insights into Baba Ramdev's life
Offers interesting insights into the meteoric rise of his political influence, business empire
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Toilets & the swachh conundrum
Book review of 'Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste'
Beyond 'Capital'
Unusually for such a large and varied collection, almost all the papers are worth reading
Well begun is half done
Book review of 'India Transformed: 25 years of Economic Reforms'
How Gandhi fought the caste system
Book review of 'Gandhi Against Caste'
The man Lincoln called 'Mars'
Book review of 'Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary'
India's destiny and the US-Pakistan embrace
Author has overstated his claim that Pressler Amendment slowed Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme
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New-age Sophocles
Kamila Shamsie's new novel, Home Fire, is a bold retelling of Sophocles' Antigone
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Shadow play in the Himalayas
Book review of 'Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962'
Of human lies and digital truths
Everybody Lies takes the reader through the powers of Big Data, its uses and shortcomings
Tracking Aadhaar
Book review of 'Aadhaar: A biometric history of India's 12-digit revolution'
The undercover game-changers
Book review of 'Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy'
A Republican senator rails against Trump
Book review of 'Conscience of a Conservative'
A collector's guide to rare and vintage comic books
Lyria Exchange helps you track collectible comic book trends for the ones available on eBay
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Partition: A military historian traces the countdown to the tragedy
British administration ignored the mounting evidence of violence between Hindus and Muslims
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Reporting the RTI stuff
Book review of 'Journalism through RTI'
The necessary rant
Penny's 'The Bitch Doctrine' explains appropriation of word, 'bitch', used by online trolls at women
Natural victims of development
Book review of 'The Vanishing: India's Wildlife Crisis'
Commentary for managers
Book review of 'The Winning Way 2.0: Learnings From Sport For Managers'
The destruction of equality
Book reviews of 'The Fate of The West' and 'One Another's Equals'