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Balancing acts in the boardroom

Drawing lessons from global and Indian corporate histories, Inside the Boardroom provides valuable insights for corporate leaders and students alike

Common sense for CEOs

Steven Bartlett's book offers practical advice for successful managers, especially those navigating the challenges in the middle of the corporate hierarchy

More capitalism than climate

Akshat Rathi's Climate Capitalism delves into the intricate dance between capitalism, greed and our climate-related problems today, exploring what it will take to build an ecosystem for change

The fine art of stealing

Michael Finkel's book tells the audacious tale of an art thief who amassed a collection worth billions, but it wasn't for monetary gains

How not to write history

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones's book explores the impact of East India Company on India, but it fails to address why British influence remained patchy, unlike in North America of the Antipodes

A model boss from hell

This is a terrific dagger of a book packed with cringey detail, just long enough to efficiently disembowel its subject

Farooq's tryst with Kashmir's destiny

The biography of former Kashmir chief minister offers a fascinating account of a personality that is simultaneously dazzling and complex

A toolkit for entrepreneurs

For people who want to start up but don't know how to go about it, Uri Levine's book offers a step-by-step guide to getting on with their entrepreneurial journey

The coalface of surveillance tech

Kashmir Hill's book blows the lid off a business model that smashes data-privacy, and delves into its evolution and deployment by states in recent years

1923: A year of reckoning

Volker Ullrich's account of the rise of Hitler offers timeless lessons in governance

How nearshoring powers globalisation

The Globalization Myth lays out a compelling vision explaining why links to the world and, above all, to neighbours first, are vital for a more competitive and inclusive future

Betting on a high-stakes life

William Walter, who rose from a tumultuous past of poverty, addiction and gambling to become a multi-millionaire, could, at best, be a statistical anomaly

A 'search' for Ashoka

Olivelle has written a thought-provoking book. He has scrupulously avoided the hagiographic sources about Ashoka because he feels they contain too many uncertainties

How China moulds the world

It is shaping a world order where its core interests and its ideas of human rights gain widespread accepted

The historical fibre of silk

Aarathi Prasad's book unspools the intricate threads of silk's story, tracing its journey from silkworms and spider silk to emperors' wardrobes

Why policies fail

Policymaking is not an easy job, and State Capability in India sheds light on the complexities of this task

The potential and limitations of fintech

Fintech for Billions strikes a nerve among digital evangelists but leaves doubts about the viability of its proposed solutions

China's 'unauthorised past'

Johnson's book takes its title from Spark, a journal cobbled together in 1960 by a band of exiled university students who had been sent to the same labour camp in the late 1950s

House of the rising son

Stalin's autobiography sheds light on his upbringing, his admiration for his father, family dynamics, and foretells the political struggle Tamil Nadu will see in the coming days

Management adages vs contextual reality

At the heart of Busted lies a profound truth that dismantles the long-held shibboleths of management