Books
The Echo Machine: Why democracy depends on citizens, not perfect leaders
Democracy's survival does not hinge on perfect leaders or policies, but on cultivating citizens who can tell the difference between what their feeds confirm and what evidence actually supports
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Destructive potential of sentient AI
AI is still not intelligent in the human sense, but fears of a superintelligent threat to humanity are not misplaced
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Economica: How women shaped the economy long before history sidelined them
The book is interested in not just the stories of the women who amassed immense wealth and wielded great power, but those whose quiet labour laid the building blocks of history
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Revolting: How Terry Deary retells history through revolt and irony
By revisiting lesser-known rebellions and forgotten episodes, Revolting takes readers on a tour of the world
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The Great Indian Brain Rot: How platform capitalism is reshaping thinking
A central insight of the book lies in its sustained attention to influence as a social and economic form
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Unseen captures the behind-the-scenes evolution of Zomato's Deepinder Goyal
The book not only tells of many such awe-inspiring moments in the life of a startup, it also captures the unpredictability, risk and adventure through it all
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Malala's coming-of-age memoir offers an unfiltered glimpse into her life
With wisecracks, misadventures, and tales of first love, Malala Yousafzai takes charge of her own story, offering the world an unfiltered glimpse into her life
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Letter from Japan: A gentle, well-sourced plea for global domestic life
Yet Ms Kondo's book arrives into a different conversation than the one she helped start a decade ago
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Uprooted shows how India's forest keepers became its most haunted outsiders
Ita Mehrotra's Uprooted, through evocative prose and stunning black-and-white illustrations capturing years of fieldwork, narrates the displacement of Van Gujjar and Taungya communities
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Coffee King: Book on CCD weaves cautionary tale for investors, regulators
In uncovering how CCD was run as a one-man show, this book weaves a cautionary tale for investors, regulators, consumers, and even fellow journalists
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Power, crime, survival: The women who define Mafia Queens of India
The book opens with Mr Zaidi's journey to meet a mysterious figure who people call Akka, once a key aide to one of Mumbai's mob bosses Varadarajan Mudaliar
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Between being and nothingness: Yiyun Li picks acceptance as a way of living
Yiyun Li is an award-winning Chinese-American author with multiple novels and short story collections to her name
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Breaking the Engagement: US-China ties shift as power gap narrows
This book attempts to track contours of relationship against this backdrop. But the author cautions that it is principally a study of US foreign policy & the American side of the US-China relationship
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More from Less for More: Can innovation bridge India's quality gap?
Mashelkar and Borde argue that true innovation doesn't cut corners or chase exclusivity. It expands access, raises quality and proves that efficiency and equity can coexist
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The Art of Spending Money: Housel warns against spending for status
People, says Mr Housel, rarely make grave spending mistakes when trying to meet basic needs. Misjudgments arise once they graduate to the realm of discretionary spending
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The Breath of the Gods: The polymath probes a force driving human history
Simon Winchester's The Breath of the Gods explores how wind has shaped exploration, disaster, innovation, and imagination, even as its future remains uncertain
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Manoj Kumar Jha's book explains hope versus reality in coalition politics
A timely collection reflects on democratic ideals, coalition failures, federalism and the need for active citizenship as India debates the future of its political culture
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Climate action's new frontier: Circular economies and 15-min cities
The book he has written seeks to weave together the history of the climate movement over the past few decades and within those the role WRI has played in it
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Voice of the people: Book explains why speeches matter in a democracy
Ms Gupta's selection captures not the speeches alone but the parry and thrust that goes on between the treasury and Opposition benches. CPI (M) leader, late Sitaram Yechury never disrupted parliament
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Searches: Book explains how we turned to internet to understand ourselves
The strength of Searches, despite its banal moments, lies in the breathing space allowed to each digital experiment without judgments or definitive conclusions
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