Bs Reads
Business responsibility in practice: Lessons from leaders on ethical growth
An anthology by experts explores responsible business practices through well-argued essays and lived experiences
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The Seven Rules of Trust: Jimmy Wales' case for trust in a divided world
In The Seven Rules of Trust, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales argues that trust is a practical skill that enables cooperation, strong institutions and lasting success
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China Resurrected: The country's long-playing geopolitical conception
The book engages with the idea that economic clout drives China's position in the world today
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The Nord Stream Conspiracy: An international war story in blockbuster prose
Bojan Pancevski's The Nord Stream Conspiracy traces the planning, execution and fallout of the 2022 pipeline sabotage through an in-depth investigation
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Natasha Walter calls for a feminism rooted in solidarity and renewal
Ms Walter, who worked with refugee women, heard countless stories of women who had fled across borders for their safety. These were stories from war zones, prison camps and detention centres
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The Founder Manual: A practical guide to building enduring Indian start-ups
Utsav Somani's The Founder Manual offers practical, India-focused guidance on building, funding, scaling and exiting startups without the hype
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China's Wars: A useful guide to China's paradox of power and insecurity
Vijay Gokhale's China's Wars examines Beijing's use of military coercion and diplomacy, offering insights into China's strategic behaviour and its implications for India
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Buildit: The inside story of Blinkit's rise and India's quick-commerce boom
Albinder Singh Dhindsa's Buildit traces Blinkit's rise from a small startup to a quick-commerce giant, offering insights into entrepreneurship and India's digital economy
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A revealing chronicle of Trump's imperial presidency and its contradictions
Regime Change chronicles Donald Trump's turbulent second term, portraying a presidency shaped by power, spectacle, loyalists and mounting political challenges
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Stephen Alter's book captures the monsoon in all its infinite variety
Stephen Alter's The Fragrance of Rain blends nature writing, ecology and culture to capture the beauty, history and complexity of India's monsoon
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Indira Jaising's memoir locates justice in constitutional belonging
Running through the memoir is a sustained inquiry into the meaning of justice in a multilingual, multifaith, and deeply unequal society
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Yengde's book is a study of how caste survives by crossing borders
Caste has waited out empires, outlasted reform movements, survived the constitutional abolition of untouchability, adapted to the diaspora, found new languages in new countries
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Dark Coloured Waters: A river memoir turns conflict into layered memory
Danesh Rana's journey along the Chenab blends memoir, conflict, history and culture, revealing the many stories carried by one of the subcontinent's most evocative rivers
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China's challenge to US tech supremacy grows as AI race reshapes rivalry
Geopolitical tensions and the US steps to keep China from catching up in AI and in chip technology has created two distinct worlds
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Iran's many revolutions: A history of resistance, repression and hope
The authors render the early years of the revolutionary movement through the life of one participant, the Islamic scholar Mehdi Karroubi
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For a room of one's own: Manil Suri's moving memoir of Bombay and belonging
In his memoir, A Room in Bombay, Manil Suri revisits his Bombay childhood, family struggles, sexuality and the letters that shaped his life
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Ticket to Kerala: Tracing Malayalam cinema's rise to a national force
The book by S R Praveen, who has been a film critic for many years, is a culmination of years spent watching, questioning and writing about cinema
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Lucky People: A breezy neuroscience take that misses wider realities
Does luck fall equally on everyone? You might not think so, but Japanese neuroscientist Nobuko Nakano argues that this is the case
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A World of Resistance: What's driving India's antibiotic overdose crisis
The very drugs that transformed India's health, agriculture, and development now threaten to undermine all three
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Inside the mind of the RSS sevak: A rare glimpse into Sangh's inner world
Julia Eckert's outstanding study on the Shiv Sena explores how the organisation grew via arbitrage in areas that the state could not/did not reach
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