Page 63 - Book Review

The Mongols' lasting legacy

Mongol faith was based on propitiating the spirit of nature and venerating ancestors

Stardom and tragedy

One of the highlights of the book is the detailed analysis of the enigma

The Lord of Short Videos

This is a great primer in a developing story and highly recommended

A Chinese 'kiss-and-tell'

This tale is a conditional paean to the Chinese Party system, which is capable of great dynamism

A chaotic transfer of power

The note about this book's sources is nearly identical to the notes in the previous two books

Queer phobias

An academic studies tribal folktales through a queer lens to highlight how they speak out against colonial-era moral policing that, ironically, still prevails in contemporary India

The limits of 'geo-psychology'

The book abounds with empirical evidences and narration, but fails to construct a theoretical paradigm

Muslim Britain: A siege within

It's a telling snapshot of "Muslim Britain" and the kind of Islam being promoted in British mosques and Muslim homes

The full story of the agrarian crisis

Mr Hardikar traces the story of Ramrao who attempted suicide by consuming two bottles of pesticide during Holi in 2014

Hindu identity as a political tool

In the two chapters on Savarkar's trial and his twilight years we get to learn a lot of things we did not know

What went wrong with Big Tech

System Error certainly serves as a very well-written, if superficial, primer for all we need to know about the impact of the tech industry

Sun, fire and sacrifice

Wendy Doniger delves into the equine in Indian myth and culture

Complicating Bollywood

Akshaya Kumar attempts to understand the interplay between Bhojpuri cinema, its language, symbols, the people it represents, and Hindi cinema

Anatomy of a business failure

When a venture fails, it is convenient to blame either the jockey (the startup founder) or the horse (the business opportunity)

The JP phenomenon

JP never shied away from debate, even when it was with those he regarded as dear friends

India's trysts with authoritarianism

Mr Joseph opines that the threat of losing democratic ethos has been looming over India for far too long now

Gamestop's improbable story

Mr Mezrich mans the conveyor belt at the factory that turns raw reality into its slick cinematic depiction

Selector at the crease

Ravi Shastri offers entertaining cameos of cricketers he thinks were great

Macroeconomics in action

The book does not take more than a paragraph to warn us about our misplaced hopes in demographic dividends

Decoding Sino-Indian diplomacy

Mr Gokhale has analysed Chinese negotiating behaviour through a set of six issues relating to India-China relations