Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya in his book Government as Practice seeks to provide a novel analytical tool to assess the experience

The crisis of the Left

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Duncan Clark has drawn on his long experience of China, his stint as advisor to the company in its early years and his access to top mgmt to produce this authoritative account

Jack Ma: from 'shrimp' to whale

Memoirs of retired civil servants are usually an interesting read simply because they offer an insight into functional style of the govts with which they have been associated during their careers

Up close & pedestrian

Some would concur instead with an opinion published by a Somali blogger in The Guardian in 2013 and quoted by the sociologist Judith Lasker in Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering

Questioning the value of volunteers

Indian army

An accomplished history juxtaposes the far-flung campaigns India fought against the independence struggle

India's World War II

When Charles J Shields's biography of Harper Lee came out in 2006, it was hailed as the definitive study of the famously private author and her singular 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee in a new light

Authors Kenneth Scheve & David Stasavage find that there is little evidence to suggest that increasing inequality leads countries to adopt higher taxes on the rich

Why governments evade the 'rich tax'

Ben Goldacre specifically targets pseudoscience, fallacies and woo and he does so with a trademark blend of logic, wit, snark and sarcasm that mocks bad science

Debunking bad science

Anyone looking for the real issues and insights about Indian manufacturing will need to read between the lines of these 16 pieces

Making it in India

Michael Kinsley's Old Age is attractively designed and just the right size to slip into one's pocket or purse

Senior moments for baby boomers

Mazumdar-Shaw (second from right) at work during Biocon's early days

Mazumdar-Shaw with Nobel laureate James Watson during his visit to Biocon in 1999

Standing her ground

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Mazumdar-Shaw at the Biocon Campus construction site in 1982

Seema Singh's new book tells the story of how Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw scripted the success story of Biocon through sheer grit

Kiran Mazumder-Shaw: A journey marked by grit

Programmed to deceive

A new book explains the frightening evolution of cyber-warfare and suggests that it's not just governments but organisations too that are vulnerable

Shyam Bhatia's Bullets and Bylines is a tribute to all those journalists who risk their lives for the sake of telling the story just as it happened

Reporting from the frontlines

Rajmohan Gandhi takes his arguments forward. His quarrel this time is with two equally fascinating characters  - Swami Sachidanand and Perry Anderson

Defending the founding fathers

Mr Case's book is filled with such insightful scenes that describe how the modern online industry was put together

Tips from the original start-up guy

Disrupted is born of Mr Lyons's attempt to cross over from covering tech to getting a piece of the action in the second, current Internet bubble

Where age 50 is the new 65

Sixers and fixers

A brilliant analysis of the Indian Premier League explains why it alternates between thrill and scandal

The Devil's Chessboard covers mostly familiar ground but still makes for a compelling read

The CIA's first grandmaster

The Indo-Japanese relationship has followed a sinusoidal pattern since the 1950s. It saw its crests right after India's independence and after the Cold War

India-Japan: poised for a great leap forward

In Failed, economist Mark Weisbrot chronicles the IMF's policy prescriptions during the Latin American, Asian and European crises

The IMF's big stumbles

The abuses had roots in decisions made at the highest levels of the Bush administration, which asserted that the United States need not abide by the Geneva Conventions in its war on terror

A penitent from Abu Ghraib

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