Page 18 - Book Review

Anupam Gupta's The Rise of Asian Paints reveals success of an entrepreneur

If you want to understand what makes Asian Paints such a successful company and how the mind of a first-generation entrepreneur works, this book is a must read

'At War With Ourselves': A must-read for a potential second Trump term

At War With Ourselves serves as essential reading for anyone countenancing a potential second round of Trump as a global leader

Giles Milton's book offers a gossipy glimpse into wartime elites, history

Milton's book follows the "scholarship lite" school of history writing

Take a leisurely walk, enjoy the sights, sounds and flavours of nostalgia

Sumana Roy's book celebrates the creativity of provincials, who became inventive because of deprivation. They take the cards that life has dealt them and start playing

Manish Chand's India's G20 Legacy: A collection of diplomatic insights

The book is worth reading to understand India's enduring contribution to the G20, even though the contributions sometimes may be overlapping and repetitive

An unsentimental view of India's capabilities and security challenges

Talmiz Raza's books, 'Essays on Military Affairs' does a great public service by putting together some of his most important articles in a compact publication

Digging with teeth: This book does some historical detective work

An Incisive History of Teeth, From Hagfish to Humans', Bill Schutt seeks to trace not just the history of individual creatures, but of all animal life on Earth, based entirely on teeth

Book review: Vikram Seth uses tech to enhance rhythm in Hanuman Chalisa

The short poem, running into just about 100 pages, has been translated with a lot of care and sensitivity keeping in mind what should make the poem more accessible to the readers

This Salman Khan book shows how AI can transform education systems globally

'Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)', by Khan Academy founder, is a valuable read for those puzzling over AI's role in education and society at large

India's China conflict and a JP angle in championing the 'Free Tibet' cause

In 'Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy', Sulmaan Wasif Khan writes about China's occupation of Tibet in 1950 and its attempts at assimilating an unfamiliar territory peopled by a strange mix of ethnicities

This book tells you about millennials' attitudes towards nearly everything

A M Gautam's 'Indian Millennials: Who Are They, Really?' deconstructs millennials by studying their behaviours towards body, food, culture, religion, spirituality, ideology, technology, and internet

Book Review: Some lessons in fighting brand crises from the marketplace

In their book 'Managing Brand Transgressions: 8 Principles to Transform Your Brand', S P Jain and S S Jain attempt to draw the right lessons that are to be learnt from brand challenges

'Who were the Nazis?': This book asks key questions about men behind Hitler

Richard J Evans' 'Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich' is being justifiably lauded for its elegance and scope

Between Nakba and Shoah

'Israel has become its own ghetto, where Jews are less safe than Diaspora Jews,' says Kai Bird in his thought-provoking new memoir that leaves readers with much to think about

Just another brick in the wall

Through the eyes of Syeda, journalist Neha Dixit traces India's story, particularly Delhi's, over the last three decades-covering hot-button issues like gau rakshaks, corruption, CAA, and more

The contours of displacement

A collection of essays intricately weaves the stories of a Kashmiri family and their exodus from the Valley

Nate Silver's odds for the future

Risk-takers will dominate our casino-like economy, but most are destined to lose, argues statistician and election modeller Nate Silver in his new book

The Raj and Hajj management

This is an outstanding contribution to a complex and under-researched aspect of imperialist rule as it was shaped in a specific area of colonial hegemony

Mixed feelings about identity

In Both, Not Half explores the diverse facets of mixed identity, going beyond individual experiences

The Indo-Japanese imperative

Packed with compelling anecdotes, data, and insights, Rajaram Panda's book is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the strengths and weaknesses of Indo-Japanese relations