The Age of Wrath is the third volume of Abraham Eraly's four-volume history of pre-modern India

The benefits of Turkish treatment

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The Wrong Enemy plots a pattern of US acquiescence to Pakistan's lethal pursuit of its perceived, but mostly exaggerated, national interests

The wrong ally

Is there a company on earth that has been more thoroughly examined at ponderous length than Apple? There are books about its early years, books about Steve Jobs' ouster from the company in 1985, and books about his triumphant return in 1997. Recently there was a book dissecting Apple's internal culture; another profiling its design wiz, Jonathan Ive; and a third charting Apple's tempestuous relationship with Google. All these volumes now orbit around Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs, the definitive chronicle, considering the imperious co-founder himself opened the door to his secretive empire as he battled pancreatic cancer.Into this crowded oeuvre comes Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs, a well-reported but premature evaluation of the post-Jobs era by the former Wall Street Journal reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane. The book is confidently written and contains a few reporting gems for committed Apple watchers. But ultimately it falls under the weight of the unanswerable question that it p

Power outage

In this edited excerpt from Sahara: The Untold Story, journalist Tamal Bandyopadhyay recounts how the Reserve Bank of India persuaded promoter Subrata Roy to give up his Rs 20,000 crore flagship financial company

The Sahara endgame

In my final years in college, I was infatuated with the idea of being my own boss. Later, a brief experience as a locum lecturer at a Kolkata college made me feel even more strongly that I wanted to run a business of my own. Since entrepreneurship has been a dominant theme of my life, I did what I had to do: I read loads of books on (or related to) the subject.So when another book on entrepreneurship - The New Business Road Test, by John Mullins, London Business School associate professor of management practice in marketing and entrepreneurship - arrived, I looked at it with the same disdain as would a hard-nosed venture capitalist who has to scan reams of business plans that land on his table every day. The title was long and the cover had a picture of three blurred-out toy car models. I also found the subtitle intriguing: "What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan." So I began browsing to see what the book had to offer.I was immediately impressed by M

Start me up

The reviewer argued that the principal limitation of the book was that it continued to look at Mr Modi primarily through the prism of 2002

Narendra Modi: The authorised version

The apple fell on my head the week before last, before I was even aware of Uday Mahurkar's new book.I live in the midst of telltale evidence of all-round progress in Gujarat. But well-founded arguments say that although Gujarat has on the whole prospered economically, its social development is middling at best and other states have done as well, if not better. And, critically, Gujarat was on the growth path before the advent of Narendra Modi. So, is all this excitement about the Gujarat Model and Mr Modi being its author only hype and very clever and focused marketing? I have grappled with this problem for weeks now. I have tried to answer in the same language, but none too convincingly, because these points are not without an appealing basis.Yet the good impression of Gujarat not only persists but seems to grow by the day. And people cannot be all fooled for a considerable period - the campaign and arguments for and against have been in the public domain for close to a year now.Then t

The myth of demythologising Narendra Modi

An exhaustively researched book pays tribute to a bunch of brave 'self-contained, westernised' Indians who kept rocking through the gloomy '60s and '70s

Pop psychology

Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace, was inspired by Mills' book, and it's a fresh and intellectually omnivorous extension of its themes

The office space we love to hate

Urbanisation in India is logically clustered into 3 sections: urban planning; finance and governance; inclusion and governance

Policy approaches to Maximum Cities

This book is a seminal contribution to understanding the Dalit question in the country

Deciphering the 'Dalit vote bank'

Corporate Fraud: The Human Factor would have been a good book on fraud had it offered detailed case studies, practical checklists

People and fraud

Robert D Kaplan's Asia's Cauldron is a short book with a powerful thesis

Sea change

Part potted history, part memoir, a British journalist has drawn an entertaining and affectionate portrait of India as seen through the eyes of foreigners

2,500 years of paradise

It is an important book; it gets you thinking more carefully about the churning that is happening around us and of which the AAP is a catalyst

Disruption as a political agenda

Martin W Sandler has carefully skirted the many titillating stories about Kennedy's amorous liaisons and adulterous escapades

JFK's burnished legacy

Sankarshan Thakur, the author of Single Man, has brilliantly chronicled the Nitish Kumar era with well-known and not-so-well-known

Bihar's lone ranger

"What Works for Women at Work" offers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women

Leaning in without falling over

The author lists what Sanjaya Baru's new memoir, The Accidental Prime Minister, reveals about PM Manmohan Singh's multifaceted personality

'I do not want my image to be projected'

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, charts how to fail your way to success in a new book with entertaining anecdotes from his own life

The upside of failure: Success

S R Sharma's Life, Times And Poetry Of Mir-Taqi-Mir falls painfully short of becoming a noteworthy addition to the canon on Mir

A poet-colossus' life journey

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