Page 20 - Literature

Future shocks in global politics

What millions of years of climate change have done to the environment have been accelerated by human agency

How Big Tech is watching you

Luckily, governments around the world have started waking up to both the dangers and started working on curbing Big Tech

Two queens and a rebellion

The book opens with the observation, "In 1857, the resistance of common people made leaders of obscure royals"

From the ruins of 9/11

Reign of Terror makes clear that what happened on September 11, 2001

Midnight's septuagenarians

Saleem, nearly thirty-one-years old, puts on display the many personal artefacts and feelings and notions and nicknames and omens that are his inheritance

After rape - a search for solutions

Each of the five women profiled in the book have a dedicated chapter

How the US created China's dominance

In the past few years, the US, more than other G7 countries, has called out the bristling hubris of a totalitarian China

Distilled wisdom from investment legends

Some of the legendary money managers featured in the book are Mohnish Pabrai, Howard Marks, John Templeton, Joel Greenblatt, Nick Sleep, Charlie Munger, and a few others

Friedman and the free market debate

A number of economists had looked closely at Friedman's arguments about the Great Depression, and found them wanting

Immigrants' song

This book is largely a celeb­ra­tion of the material and cultural legacy of Parsis

A cult disciple's rules

All in all, By My Own Rules is an engaging read about a remarkable life

Spying the patterns

The most useful parts of the book are in understanding the pitfalls when dealing with a mass of information and data

The grammar of digital communication

Contemporary communication relies more than ever on how we say something rather than on what we say

What makes Elon Musk different

Two new books, written with Musk's cooperation, now deepen our appreciation of his achievements

Chronicling the pandemic

This book is not only insightful, but also a tribute to The India Forum - the online journal that has published a range of pieces in the span of one year

Finding opportunity

The author emphasises the need to work actively on enhancing one's visibility

The Empire demystified

Mr Matthews engages in a speculative "what-if" game

From Fatwa to fabulism

Book review of LANGUAGES OF TRUTH: Essays 2003-2020

Hunchprose: Hoskote's poems offer a bastion of truth in a post-truth world

In our post-truth world, where the difference between fact and fiction collapses too easily, poetry is the last residue of truth, capable of excavating histories or creating new ones.

JLF 2021: Virtual Jaipur Literature Fest's author book gets fatter

On from February 19 to 28, it is expected to bring the most talked about books, literary themes and authors of 2020 directly to audiences across the world in the comfort of their living rooms