Page 7 - Book Review
Inside India's polls: flaws, fraud, and the battle to save democracy
Author SY Quraishi dwells on the Model Code of Conduct and other aspects of holding elections, including the role of exit polls, media and hate speech
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No, Minister: Subhash Chandra Garg's 2nd memoir mirrors tone of his first
The tenor of the second part of former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg's memoir is not dissimilar to that which pervaded his first one --and the title is a dead giveaway
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Superbloom: Nicholas Carr book says more communication isn't always better
The real threat of AI and LLMs lie not in job loss, but in corporations using them to create endless loops of content tailored to everyone's smallest needs, chaining us to our devices more than ever
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Jacinda Ardern's memoir is a moving account of a career built with care
The former New Zealand Prime Minister's memoir is nothing like a political manifesto. It is an assured and often moving account of a career built with care - though not without frequent self-doubt
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India in Flux offers up new ways to think about complex challenges ahead
Few could have played the role Shankar Acharya did-navigating political, fiscal, and global pressures with clarity and conviction
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A Billion Butterflies: This book drops truth bombs on climate change
How an old deal over a supercomputer explains the politics behind climate science today
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Scott Anderson captures US' hubris, Iran's revolution in exceptional detail
For most Americans, the hostage crisis was the revolution's defining event
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Marcus Du Sautoy's book demystifies maths, builds bonds with humanities
How creativity is intimately connected to mathematics, even when the artists themselves may not be fully aware of it
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The CIA Book Club reveals how the West won minds behind the Iron Curtain
How the CIA, instead of pursuing scandalous swashbuckling interventions, smuggled books to weaken the Iron Curtain and offer Eastern Europe a glimpse of an alternative future
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Mehran Gul's debut book decodes the innovation ecosystem through its people
We see the United States as the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life, and most of the companies that created them are based there. But is that changing
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The Trial That Shook Britain: How a court-martial led to India's freedom
The tactical contradictions that doomed earlier revolutionary movements found their dramatic resolution in Bose's audacious gamble with the INA
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The Conscience Network: Fighting the emergency and the US battlefront
The element of equivalence between then and now is probed delicately but bravely by this book which revisits the Emergency and the resistance to it from a new angle
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Lifequake: Tarini Mohan's book about what came after, not miracles
She writes with remarkable lucidity about the estrangement of living in a body that no longer responds the way it once did, of the disjuncture between intention and execution
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H.I.T. Investing: A new book the balance between purpose and profit
It is hard to fathom how any organisation could build a sustainable business by offering high-quality products at affordable prices, but many have done just that. H.I.T. Investing tells their stories
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OTP Please: Vandana Vasudevan exposes hard truths of the ecommerce economy
From online marketplaces using data to harm local businesses to the suffering that lies behind the glossy growth story that startups tell, Vandana Vasudevan exposes the hard truth of platform economy
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The Johnson & Johnson Files: Unhealthy truths and defective hip implants
A tale of defective hip implants exposes India's weak medical oversight - and how multinationals treat Indian patients worse than those in rich countries
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The Mission: Tim Weiner's book explains how the CIA lost its way
Throughout The Mission, Weiner hammers on an agency that seems to be repeatedly blinded by its sense of American supremacy
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One in a Billion: Sonal Holland's journey of popularising wine in India
If you believe in an idea and know it makes sense, don't give up - for Sonal C Holland, believing in her idea meant putting wine on India's map and inspiring a whole new community of wine lovers
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Vivek Banerji's book shows how to reap insight from information overload
Navigating through tons of data to uncover hidden patterns is a critical skill in this day and age, and the key is to look beyond data dashboards
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Hostile Homelands: Azad Essa's book traces India-Israel ties before BJP era
The author, who is based in New York, notes that India's arms imports from Israel rose by 175 per cent between 2015 and 2019
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