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BITs in pieces

As bilateral investment treaties' dispute settlement mechanisms become controversial and face backlash, Prabhash Ranjan's book serves as a compass for navigating these turbulent waters

Making family businesses last

Through 12 case studies and plenty of anecdotes and nuggets of wisdom strewn throughout, Beyond Three Generations is a book that every founder seeking longevity for their business must read

Behind bars with Palestinians

My Brother, My Land is a memoir of discontinuities, interruptions and confinements. Nasser Abu Srour's memoir, The Tale of a Wall, echoes the story of Iyad in disquieting fashion.

Manoj Bajpayee: A not-so-definitive biography

Manoj Bajpayee, The Definitive Biography has been translated in English by journalist Rachit Vats from Pandey's original Hindi book titled Kuch Paane Ki Zid

The art of constructive negotiation

Management school teacher Prakash Chugani's book is designed to help you shed the belief that some people are born to be successful negotiators

India's urban imperatives

With his wealth of experience, Om Prakash Mathur distils insights and wisdom on urbanisation in one comprehensive compilation, making it a must-read along with his earlier book

Reports from MAGA frontlines

The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy, a new book by Isaac Arnsdorf, a journalist at The Washington Post

The hubris of the Raj

Mukund Padmanabhan's elegantly written book seeks to reconstruct a 'narrative of events that have been neglected, of stories that have been lost'

How 'BK-16' puts democracy on trial

The Incarcerations is the biography of 16 disparate prisoners of conscience - poets, professors, lawyers and journalists

Continuous transformation as business strategy

Transformation managers must go through the book to learn from these masters

Restoring a broken global order

Despite the book's title, then, what Sanger depicts is less reminiscent of the Cold War than of earlier phases of geopolitical competition

Researcher in the hot seat

India desperately needs more such books about women in senior leadership roles not only to inspire girls who want to realise seemingly impossible dreams but also to prepare boys

The plague as a metaphor

Laxmibai Tilak, a contemporary writer, recounts how plague camps, where patients were quarantined, were 'kingdoms of the god of death'

Leader as 'friction fixer'

Successful friction-fixers are assured of a long-lasting functional job that is for sure

Congress talks the walk

Will the Congress-led Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) be able to defeat the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)?

REAL.E scary

The collaboration has worked wonderfully though the final product is not for the faint hearted as well as those who are not already following the progress of AI

Reconciling 'development' dilemmas

Accelerating India's Development is about enhancing development and growth by improving public service delivery

The enduring myth of the 'West'

Western capitals, anxious to continue their political, economic and military hegemony in the face of emerging challenges from new players, are unlikely to pay much heed to this sobering intervention

The long road to liberalisation

The return of Indira Gandhi and the subsequent takeover by Rajiv Gandhi saw one of the periods of highest economic growth initially but these and associated investments were powered by dollops of debt

Speed date with the liberal world order

The study of revolution can tell us 'how and why the world has come to be what it is today and whither it is going.'