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A survival manual for small businesses

In the 1990s, low-priced Chinese brushes entered the US market. Initially, they were of poor quality, so American manufacturers were not worried.

First amendment and 'original sin'

India amends the Constitution at the drop of a hat. The first time it did so was within a year of it being adopted in 1950. That amendment abridged our freedom of speech.

Education's 'non-profit industrial complex'

What makes the book riveting is Ms Tukdeo's view of policy as socially and culturally constructed

Epiphany of a bhakt

Messiah Modi? is not a straightforward linear narrative

The bank behind Donald Trump

Name a banking scandal and Deutsche Bank was in the thick of it

'The Story of Yoga': Alistair Shearer focuses on growth of yoga in the West

The Story of Yoga carefully explains how this pre-eminent form of communal exercising in the West is a mere subset of a larger universe whose ultimate goal is self-actualisation

Tolerating intolerance

Ms Vaidik's book is framed as a narrative to her son in which she demonstrates how violence has pervaded mythologies, folklore and language

The pangs of transition

The way technology has impacted the global order ever since the invention of the wheel is no less significant

Partition: The real enemy

Mr Akbar tells this story with his usual diligence about facts and facets and his customary lucidity

Creating the nation

The larger question here is how important is the right to vote for the average Indian? How satisfied is the average Indian with the nation's tryst with electoral democracy?

Donald Trump: Colossus unbound

Unmaking the Presidency, by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes, isn't just another compendium of insider gossip and bumbling treachery

Former Delhi Police Commissioner recalls the day terror struck Parliament

Nearly 20 years ago, when a suicide squad stormed the complex, the author was among the first to appear on the scene.

'Wuthering Heights' reimagined as a 1960s affair

Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories is a haunting if slightly unbalanced collection

A magisterial biography of Dara Shukoh opens up new vistas of understanding

Supriya Gandhi's magisterial biography of Dara Shukoh opens up new vistas for understanding the political structure and intellectual ambience that fashioned the Mughal Empire

Abstinence from the news

The reason Stop Reading the News gave the reviewer a pause for thought is that it was endorsed -sort of -by Alan Rusbridger, former editor of The Guardian

A draughtsman of independent India

These days, we find Nehru and Patel blindly pitted one against the other, and the cracks within their relationship manipulated to augment partisan politics

Looking into Kashmir

Ms Vijay makes excellent use of her plot material

Incomplete disclosure

Going Public has six sections and 19 chapters but is broadly structured in two parts

Affirmative action in US politics

Book review of THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PUZZLE: A Living History From Reconstruction to Today

A unique book discusses Krishna and Vrindavan in contemporary times

Hawley draws a contrast between Krishna in Vrindavan and Krishna in later years, for instance, at the Kurukshetra battlefield advising Arjuna on the ways of the world or even later in Dwaraka