Page 13 - Book Reading

World wars in Retailville

As Amazon turns 30, Clash is a timely book that explores the fierce rivalry between retail giants Amazon and Walmart, and examines their impact on the retail landscape and customers

The Nagarwala scandal, unreconstructed

Journalists Prakash Patra and Rasheed Kidwai revisit the 1971 SBI scam after reviewing declassified documents, but with underwhelming results

Yin, yang and assumptions

Sandeep Hasurkar explores how India and China, through contrasting governance and developmental paths, have shaped their unique trajectories on the global stage

Democrat with an authoritarian streak

Bhaskar Parichha's book beautifully captures the essence of Biju Patnaik - a man both impatient and irascible, fraught with passion, and a big-picture thinker who eschewed detail

Mapping the labyrinth

Abraham Jacob delves into the deep vaults of ancient Indian writings on Hinduism and its philosophical experiments, providing an easy-to-read primer on both the country and its civilisation

Chinese history, for the CCP

Ian Johnson's book offers a lens to view China through the eyes of its people rather than through the party

Was global trade a mistake?

The late-20th-century project of integrating China into the global economy, in the hope that economic development would come hand in hand with political liberalism, feels at best misguided

Heights of ambition

Written with brio, the book nevertheless is an uncomfortable read because Cockrell ignores the distressing negative externalities of Everest Inc

UP's power dynamics

Shyamlal Yadav's book offers extraordinary insights into how UP's chief ministers handle governance, faction management, and administration in a state pivotal to national politics

Actor Alia Bhatt makes her debut as author with 'Ed Finds A Home'

With her children's picture book 'The Adventures of Ed-a-Mamma: Ed Finds A Home', Alia Bhatt added another accomplishment to her resume. On her Instagram account, the actor posted the update

The alternative path to riches

Navigating a volatile market can be daunting for the ordinary Joe, while the ultra-rich have access to more exclusive investment options. The Holy Grail of Investing is a guide to bridging this gap

Civilisation against the flow

Aniket Ghanashyam's passionately written book provides a deeper understanding and appreciation of the world's most indispensable resource

The other side of nonviolent resistance

Is Carter Jackson advocating armed resistance at the next protest? Her book is not an instruction manual for activists

A wild ride for US diplomacy

Stuart E Eizenstat's book is a technocratic endeavour that harks back to an ideal of US diplomacy as a nonpartisan arena

The debt trap saga

Journalist N Sundaresha Subramanian's book goes beyond merely chronicling the stories of India's major defaulters; it also offers a comprehensive account of the country's evolving bankruptcy system

New book on FMs reveals complex yet interesting times of 1977-98

The period covers the first demonetisation, first attempts in tax reforms, balance of payments crisis

The white man's burden on global tourism

Shahnaz Habib's book delves into fundamental questions: Why travel? Where to travel to? And what to see once we're there? In the process infusing a philosophical edge into the concept of travel

Deconstructing India's national security system

Milan Vaishnav's book is a treatise on India's national security apparatus, highlighting the challenges and the positive role it plays against difficult odds

The Indian mosaic

The essays in this collection interrogate what it means to be "Indian" and how these identities often involve a level of paradoxical disconnect between formal mandates and actual practices

India's clandestine love affair with crypto

Journalist Mitali Mukherjee's book delves into the connected worlds of cryptocurrency, cybercrime, and the Dark Web, laying out the state-of-the-art in this realm of skulduggery