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I am a troll: Inside the secret world of BJP's digital army

Trolling is an organised political activity

Using fiction to make curious links between financial risk and terrorism

University of the Witwatersrand English lecturer Schalkwyk with five books that influenced his year

Mihir S Sharma: All the President's books

Barack Obama is not just a reader, he is a genuine writer

Unsung son-in-law

Feroze Gandhi was a champion of press freedom and nemesis of crony capitalism and corruption

An epic reign

Book describes the 20 years of Victoria's marriage to Albert as the weakest period of her reign

An internal view of external relations

This book provides valuable insights into the complexities of foreign-policy-making

Israel's Egyptian 'saviour'

Marwan's story is a reminder of the Cold War era in West Asian politics

Alokananda Chakraborty: Managing without control

The far-reaching implications of digital technology and the way it impinges on strategy have not bee

The fate of financial centres

Reading 'Crash, Bang, Wallop', the story of London's emergence as an international financial centre, an Indian can certainly wonder what didn't work in favour of Mumbai

Nilanjana S Roy: Beautiful minds, flawed human minds

'The Undoing Project: The Friendship That Changed Our Minds' is an account of a truly remarkable partnership, set down in his trademark lucid and perceptive style

An art of living

If work is our national religion, Mr Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves

Driving force: A peek into Onkar S Kanwar's life

A new biography of the industrialist recounts Apollo Tyres' aborted bid to acquire the US' Cooper Tires

Deborah Lutz: Into the Wilde

A free-spirited family gave rise to Oscar Wilde

When Dylan changed the times

Uttaran Das Gupta revisits the night Bob Dylan revolutionised folk music

The shape of India's security doctrine

The book covers a multitude of areas, both external and internal threats, in domains such as maritime, nuclear, space and cyber security

Remaking the Humans-First world

"The Unnatural World" is a travelogue with that good human epoch in mind, a trip around the world to meet people working out new ways for humanity to live as well as survive

Kanhaiya's Modi doctrine

It seems such a long time ago that Kanhaiya Kumar, the former president of JNU Students' Union, dominated daily news

The iron wall of Israel

If Benjamin Netanyahu's govt makes it through two more years - and it's a big if given the shaky foundation of most governing coalitions in Israel

'I think the book will surprise some people'

Interview of historians, William Dalrymple and Anita Anand

After the Mahabharata

A skilful translation resurrects a little-remembered sequel to the great epic, says A K Bhattacharya