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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

The Luddites of Big Tech

Merchant is keen to reframe the Luddites as proto-unionist reformers rather than violent revolutionaries

Ordinary intellectuals

Amit Chaudhuri's book explores the role of organic intellectuals in shaping India's contemporary narrative of resistance and reason

The write side of history

A book that takes readers on a guided tour of some of the world's oldest and most mysterious scripts

India's place in the new world order

Ambassador Sujan Chinoy's book explores why strengthening the existing multilateral order is crucial, not only for containing China, but also for minimising superpowers' exceptionalism

New complexities in Dalit assertion

A thoughtfully put-together volume illuminates the gamut of current struggles and tensions in Dalit politics, encompassing discrimination, representation, as well as their aspirations and anxieties