Page 54 - Book Review

Tale of a city, warts and all

The hospital is your best tourism option for efficiency, tourist trappings be damned

Digital medium and messaging

The book's voice carries immense worth given the pedigree of one of its co-authors

Dealing with deadlines

According to Mr Cox, "as soon as you set a deadline, work tends to get delayed until right before time expires". He calls this a "deadline effect".

Dimensions of leadership

The subject of leadership permits opposite conclusions to be drawn from the same observations and data

Truman: The everyman president

Mr Frank does not so much puncture the Truman myth as let out just enough air to settle the man back to earth

The Mahabharata and us

G N Devy has produced incisive commentary on what it means to be the inheritors of this vibrant, timeless text

Hinduism decoded

In the last many years, Mr Debroy has translated several Hindu epics into simple English prose, even though they were originally written in narrative couplets

How to succeed

The authors, two blood brothers six years apart, are alumni of IIT

The 'Gray War' combat zone

The book's thesis is broad. Cyberwar can target both the soft and hard "layers" of the Internet and leverage them separately, or together

Mind your brand language

Throughout, Mr West strengthens his observations by referring to diverse sources - from Locke and Hobbes to Aristotle to Orwell

Good Trump, bad Trump

The heart of One Damn Thing After Another concerns the earlier days of Trump's presidency when, apparently, "country and principle" took first place

War, peace and an interfaith friendship

Bishop Andrus embarks on an ambitious and noble enterprise

Dissent for a brighter future

The book compares the strategies of state overreach used during the Emergency with those of the current government

A Napoleonic view of BJP

The book is conspicuous in its misstatements and suppression of facts

Rebels in the footnotes

One striking aspect of the RIN mutiny was that Indian naval officers did not back the ratings and remained loyal to the navy

The genius who saw tomorrow

The skill with which Mr Bhattacharya teases apart dense scientific concepts left me feeling ambivalent

SRK & the art of 'fandom-onomics'

An economist traces the nuances of gender inequality through Indian women's universal fascination with Shah Rukh Khan

The aftershocks of war

Aftermath offers a less heroic and more nuanced picture of a forgotten period in post-war history

Understanding numbers better

Making Numbers Count is replete with examples of how people can make numbers understandable and tolerable even for those who dread numbers

Water management is everybody's business

The book discusses how colonial powers "foundationally destabilised India's water regimen"