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The greatest (im)morality

In The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century, Tim Weiner recounts the tale of how the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States' foreign intelligence service, reinvented itself

The greatest (im)morality
Updated On : 05 Dec 2025 | 2:41 PM IST
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A writer-doctor on the frontlines of the Kargil war

The Kargil War Surgeon's Testimony, written by Arup Ratan Basu, is an account of survival, sacrifice, and the human cost of conflict, as seen from the frontlines of the conflict in 1999

A writer-doctor on the frontlines of the Kargil war
Updated On : 06 Nov 2025 | 8:19 PM IST
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Dragon talks

The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India by former foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale analyses the underlying pattern of how China does business

Dragon talks
Updated On : 06 Nov 2025 | 8:16 PM IST
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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

Book excerpt: How RBI under Raghuram Rajan started the war against NPAs
Updated On : 31 Oct 2020 | 10:06 AM IST

Subbarao vs UPA: The governor in his labyrinth

Duvvuri Subbarao recounts how his tensions with P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee, then finance ministers, over monetary policy spilled over into other issues in the central bank. An exclusive excerpt from Who Moved My Interest Rate?, his memoir of his term as Reserve Bank of India governor

Subbarao vs UPA: The governor in his labyrinth
Updated On : 16 Jul 2016 | 12:30 AM IST

Book Extract: Mix and match

From pristine pure English to Hindi to Hinglish, the language of Indian advertising is now a mishmash of many languages

Book Extract: Mix and match
Updated On : 11 Jul 2016 | 12:20 AM IST