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Yesterday's professions
Overall, The Lost Generation: Chronicling India's Dying Professions is an off-beat book that is pleasing in the diverse sights, sounds and ideas that it manages to capture
The art of the con
The Confidence Game belongs to the genre popularised by Malcolm Gladwell: Social psychology designed for mass consumption
Life after death
Much like Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, Paul Kalanithi has the power to influence the lives of people through his book, even after his death
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The world of books in 2016
The author predicts how the world of books will change dramatically in 2016
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Rusty grows up
Ruskin Bond's latest book reminds children and adults once again of the simpler pleasures of life
Cricket's 'wise old king'
The book includes essays from a variety of Wisden publications, as well as extracts from the Almanack and reports of Benaud's 63 Test matches
Jack Ma: The authorised version
From various profiles, we know Mr Ma is charismatic, maverick and unconventional - he is known as "Crazy Jack" for his purported iconoclasm
Family businesses: homilies vs home truths
Management guru Ram Charan raises hopes further by writing on the cover of the book that it takes you "behind closed doors of what actually happens in family businesses."
State of Grace
An imaginative fictional recreation of the last years of W G Grace presents a warm, human portrait of the man who was behind cricket's first superstar
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Jinnah, friend and folly
If Amitav Ghosh is a sociologist-historian turned novelist, Kiran Doshi is a novelist turned social historian
Jihad in secular struggles
This book focuses on the call for jihad against the British by the Islamic clergy (mullahs) in the 19th and 20th centuries
Barkha Dutt behind the fault lines
In "The Place of Women", the journalist in Ms Dutt takes a backseat and the woman in her gets behind the wheel
Chetan Bhagat is the most loved author on Flipkart
Shilpa Shetty Kundra emerges as the top-selling non-fiction writer
A street thug turns jihadi leader
Mr Warrick focuses parts of this book on the lives of several individuals with singular, inside takes on the overarching story
The 2016 reading list
The author lists some of the books to look forward to in India
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Rogues, rascals and oligarchs
This book tracks the transfer of wealth and power in Russia. The focal point is the career of the so-called Godfather of the Kremlin, the oligarch Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (1946-2013)
National security after 9/11
Democratic govts naturally want to do whatever they can to protect their citizens, Mr Savage notes, but they also want to avoid breaking the law - and so it becomes crucial to decide just what counter
America's role in 1962
This is the detailed story of how Kennedy and Nehru, despite the lack of chemistry between them, were induced by their democratic values and principles to come together in the face of China's aggressi