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A tale of two Hindu sects
A scholar explores why two 18th century movements challenging key tenets of Hindu worship face very different fates in modern India
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Barack Obama memoir 'A Promised Land' off to record-setting start in sales
Barack Obama's A Promised Land sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history
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Jinnah, the maverick autocrat
Book review of Jinnah His Successes, Failures and Role in History
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In defence of Rajiv Gandhi
Book review of My Years with Rajiv: Triumph and Tragedy
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Radical reformer
Book review of The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan
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Rahul Gandhi has nervous unformed quality about him: Obama in his new book
This is the first of two volumes, it starts early in his life, charting his initial political campaigns, and ends with a meeting in Kentucky where he is introduced to the SEAL team
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An economist's feminist journey
Book review of The Brass Notebook
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Crime and reformation
Book review of Gangster on the Run: The True Story of a Reformed Criminal
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Whose gender bias is it, anyway?
Book review of How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back
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Boards and the human factor
Book review of On Board: The Insider's Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom
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MBS: Saudi Arabia's enigma
Book review of Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
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Our Neanderthal cousins
Book review of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
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Indian creativity in miniature
Book review of Court & Courtship: Indian Miniatures in the TAPI Collection
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Benazir: A friend remembers
Book review of The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto
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BJP's Bengal play
Book review of Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment
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India's corporate collapses
Book review of The Meltdown: India Inc's Biggest Implosions
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Book excerpt: Wipro's CEO conundrum and a chronicle of Azim Premji's life
Why have so many otherwise fine CEOs failed to lift the IT major's performance? In their new book, Sundeep Khanna and Varun Sood tell the story as they chronicle Azim Premji's life
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Out of the nuclear shadow
Book review of Fire and Fury: Transforming India's Strategic Identity
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In the world of online hate
Book review of CULTURE WARLORDS: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
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Book excerpt: How RBI under Raghuram Rajan started the war against NPAs
The RBI found that the banks were delaying recognising large accounts as NPAs, even if projects were not starting up, and the 'project commencement' milestone was largely cosmetic
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