The list of contributors to this book of readings consists of a virtual Whos Who of Indian economy  Amartya Sen, Jagdish Bhagwati, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Prabhat Patnaik, Sanjaya Baru, Jean Dreze

One-sided defense of globalisation

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Assassins and cemeteries

Childhood friends Suri and Bal, a management consultant and a journalist with a maths degree, have together written this novel of two generations of a mathematically inclined family. In it, a young

A life in numbers

Inclusive growth is the mantra in India now. The NDA government fell unexpectedly while Indias GDP was reaching new heights and now the UPA government is wary of calling an election even though GDP

When capitalism supersedes democracy

Twenty years ago, when Penguin India opened its doors, most Indians associated their trademark orange penguin with Puffins childrens books or with the venerable Penguin Classics. 


Happy birthday, Penguin India

Theres so much fun to be had with Dev Anands new autobiography (assuming, of course, that you have a basic interest in the mans life and work) that its almost pointless to read the book

A guide to Dev Anand

What did Tony Blair have to say about Pokhran-II? That might well be, for an Indian reader, a legitimate starting point when reading Alistair Campbells Diaries, a fascinating record

Prince Charles scores over Pokhran

The Khasi tribe of the North-east got their alphabet only in 1842. Thanks to this rather late arrival of the written word, the Khasis enjoyed a robust oral tradition. The Khasis told stories which

An oral tradition that says a lot

In 1948, Norman Mailers The Naked and the Dead ruled the US bestseller lists, alongside Thornton Wilder and A J Cronin. It was also the year that T S Eliot won the Nobel Prize, though he found time

The Return of H Hatterr

Esquire once called him one of the 21 most important people in the 21st century&#39;.

Re-heating American pie

Over the past six months, the one global development that has eclipsed the news of rising crude oil prices has been the attempt by BHP Billiton to take over its rival Rio Tinto, both Anglo-Australian mining giants.

Dark underbelly of mining

Rushdie's famous novel has just won another facile "best of" poll, but don't let that put you off - it's still a great book.

Children of Midnight's Children

There wasn&#39;t much surprise when Salman Rushdie&#39;s Midnight&#39;s Children won the Best of Bookers  for the second time  last week.

In Midnight`s Shadow

&nbsp;See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum and one night..

Batman`s long reign

Two decades after General Zia-ul-Haq's death, a new twist in the tale of how he met his end.

All the juice

&nbsp;Writing on Hyderabad is not easy. But not because the subject is not inspiring.

Hyderabad blues

In a year when the United States, and the world at large, looks forward to a new beginning in the White House, there is a need to re-examine American politics.

Fear-free America?

In 1969, Lakshmi Niwas Mittal graduated from Kolkata&#39;s St Xavier&#39;s  the Jesuit college had agreed to take him after much reluctance  with the highest marks ever achieved by a Xavier&#39;s student in accountancy and commercial mathematics.

How to steel a deal

Calling anything a James Bond novel&#39; is guaranteed to generate reader interest.

Stirred, not shaken

For a scholarly writer, Amitav Ghosh is surprisingly easy to talk to, finds Jai Arjun Singh, even as the author holds forth on links between languages and his latest book.

Opium of the classes!

Qurratulain Hyder (Annie Khala to her younger admirers) was one of modern Urdu literature's best-known authors.

`R. is right, you can act.`

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