Page 7 - Book Reviews
India in Flux offers up new ways to think about complex challenges ahead
Few could have played the role Shankar Acharya did-navigating political, fiscal, and global pressures with clarity and conviction
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A Billion Butterflies: This book drops truth bombs on climate change
How an old deal over a supercomputer explains the politics behind climate science today
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Scott Anderson captures US' hubris, Iran's revolution in exceptional detail
For most Americans, the hostage crisis was the revolution's defining event
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Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada: Shahu Patole's book on the taste of casteism
Food is a critical part of any culture. It locates you. It shapes how you're seen and how you see yourself. It carries histories, hierarchies, and inheritances
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The voice of farmers: How Subramaniam backed Swaminathan's seed dream
How C Subramaniam's political backing helped MS Swaminathan secure funds for hybrid seed trials, setting the stage for India's Green Revolution and agricultural self-reliance
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'Scientist of the soil': New book reveals untold stories of MS Swaminathan
New book 'The Man Who Fed India' reveals untold stories of MS Swaminathan, chronicling his journey, personal life, Green Revolution role, and lifelong service to Indian farming
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Marcus Du Sautoy's book demystifies maths, builds bonds with humanities
How creativity is intimately connected to mathematics, even when the artists themselves may not be fully aware of it
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The CIA Book Club reveals how the West won minds behind the Iron Curtain
How the CIA, instead of pursuing scandalous swashbuckling interventions, smuggled books to weaken the Iron Curtain and offer Eastern Europe a glimpse of an alternative future
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Mehran Gul's debut book decodes the innovation ecosystem through its people
We see the United States as the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life, and most of the companies that created them are based there. But is that changing
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The Trial That Shook Britain: How a court-martial led to India's freedom
The tactical contradictions that doomed earlier revolutionary movements found their dramatic resolution in Bose's audacious gamble with the INA
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The Conscience Network: Fighting the emergency and the US battlefront
The element of equivalence between then and now is probed delicately but bravely by this book which revisits the Emergency and the resistance to it from a new angle
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Growth must mean jobs, value addition and economic stability: Sitharaman
At the launch of A World in Flux, FM Nirmala Sitharaman said India's top priority is quality growth focused on jobs, value addition and sustainability
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A World in Flux: Sitharaman flags need to reshape institutions for present
At the launch of 'A World in Flux', Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said multilateral institutions are now in limbo and stressed the urgent need to reshape them for today's rapidly evolving world
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Children of Radium: 'Digging for Trauma' in Nazi Germany's History
In the course of his research, Dunthorne makes multiple visits to Germany and tries to retrace and recreate his great-grandfather's life
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Lifequake: Tarini Mohan's book about what came after, not miracles
She writes with remarkable lucidity about the estrangement of living in a body that no longer responds the way it once did, of the disjuncture between intention and execution
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H.I.T. Investing: A new book the balance between purpose and profit
It is hard to fathom how any organisation could build a sustainable business by offering high-quality products at affordable prices, but many have done just that. H.I.T. Investing tells their stories
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OTP Please: Vandana Vasudevan exposes hard truths of the ecommerce economy
From online marketplaces using data to harm local businesses to the suffering that lies behind the glossy growth story that startups tell, Vandana Vasudevan exposes the hard truth of platform economy
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The Johnson & Johnson Files: Unhealthy truths and defective hip implants
A tale of defective hip implants exposes India's weak medical oversight - and how multinationals treat Indian patients worse than those in rich countries
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The Mission: Tim Weiner's book explains how the CIA lost its way
Throughout The Mission, Weiner hammers on an agency that seems to be repeatedly blinded by its sense of American supremacy
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Lesley Downer's new book offers a grand panoramic tour of Japan's history
Japan has received far more than its share of natural disasters, most massive earthquakes, volcano eruptions, gigantic tsunamis and ravaging fires
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