This book comprises a large number of entertainingly written true stories of how Indian youngsters are building Internet-based businesses with help of global venture capital

Hyper-excitement over start-ups

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The real essence of a public intellectual: Someone who acts to create a public in which her role will become redundant and unnecessary

No country for intellectuals

Shock Waves establishes an urgent thesis: preventing destructive climate change is a policy priority for the world's poor

Preventing climate change is pro-poor

A memoir of love in the time of intolerance

A candid personal memoir traces the history of homosexuality from the 1980s to today, offering a rare insight into the psyche of gay individuals and their homophobic opponents

This book is hard to review. At best it can be described as the experiences of a voluntary vagabond through almost seven decades of his life

Adventures of a voluntary vagabond

This book brings together a number of papers presented by Indian and Turkish scholars at a conference in November 2013

Neo-Ottomanism in the West Asian quagmire

To his credit, the author has managed to weave issues as diverse as employment, public finance, the subsidy regime and decentralisation into a coherent narrative

India's demographic deficiencies

Ian Kershaw's chilling epic-size history produces aftershocks connected to our current news headlines

The descent of Europe

Rajiv Gandhi govt's ban on Satanic Verses was a mistake: Chidambaram

New Delhi, 28 JanuaryFormer Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the ban on Salman Rushdie's book 'The Satanic Verses' by the Rajiv Gandhi government was a mistake. "I have no hesitation in saying that the ban on Salman Rushdie's book was a mistake," Chidambaram said at the Times Literary Festival. Chidambaram was a minister of state in the Rajiv Gandhi government (1984 to 89). India was the first country to ban 'The Satanic Verses' after some Muslims complained about its blasphemous content. The senior Congress leader also expressed concern at the rising "illiberalism" in the country while addressing a session at the literary festival on 'Is India a liberal republic?' "Recently, illiberalism is on rise. However, illiberalism has always failed," he said. Chidambaram said: "You cannot be a modern liberal society till you eliminate every idea that fosters inequality."Earlier in the day, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told the gathering that the Supreme Court should reconsider its jud

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The middle-class rebel

A critical look at Badal Sircar's oeuvre fills an important gap in the history of Indian theatre

Art from the heart

Naïve art is self-taught and self-expressed, independent in thought and expression

The Indian National Congress provided a broad platform for representatives of diverse political and social ideologies to launch a powerful anti-colonial liberation struggle

The real giants of the Indian right

This book shows how our increasing dependence on the internet has made us vulnerable to hacking

Perils in cyberspace

The Emperor Far Away is a piece of reportage about nearly a hundred million Chinese who live off the scraps of the world's second largest economy

The other China

He believed that government had a crucial role to play in a well-functioning economy. It should finance and run good schools, as well as build roads, bridges and parks, he argued. It should tax alcohol, sugar and tobacco, all of which impose costs on society. It should regulate businesses to protect workers. And it should tax the rich - who suffer from "indolence and vanity" - to help the poor.Which leftist economist was this? None other than Adam Smith, the inventor of the "invisible hand" and the icon of ­laissez-faire economics today. Smith's modern reputation is a caricature. He was a giant of the Enlightenment in large part because he was a careful and nuanced thinker. He certainly believed that a market economy was a powerful force for good. Smith was a classical liberal, in the European sense of the word, who emphasised the essential equality among human beings.Lanny Ebenstein's mission, in Chicagonomics, is to rescue not only Smith from his caricature but also some of Smith's

Chicagonomics and Economics Rules

WHY INDIA IS NOT A GREAT POWER (YET)

The author's provocative prescription for an ambitious foreign policy could be disruptive for conservative New Delhi elites

Crouching dragon, kneeling tiger

This book is meant to be a feminist reading of the Mahabharata but imbuing characters within a patriarchal framework with contemporary sensibilities of feminism creates a clash between context and story

Lionising the Mahabharata's women

V Raghunathan has been writing books on diverse issues - about locks, a popular book on game theory, one on paradoxes, a book on rationality

History online

Managing India deals with topics as varied as democracy, governance, RSS's influence on social welfare schemes, and managing family businesses

Random variations on managing India

Mr George Bush junior's two-term presidency is the subject for a different book, but Mr Meacham deftly sketches what the son learned from his father's tenure

George Bush senior, decoded

Dhyan Chand

Action from a match between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal

Members of the Indian team after winning the 1983 cricket World Cup

India's sporting history isn't filled with triumph but by examining the issue from a wider socio-economic context, Ronojoy Sen has written a compelling narrative

The playing fields of India

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