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Book Review: Philippe Sands’ trilogy on crimes against humanity reveal that silence as a self-preservation tool links both perpetrators and victims
Written with the precision of a lawyer’s brief and based on an extraordinary ability to connect with people associated with the crimes, his three oral histories are a must read
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‘AI is already a force multiplier for a new wave of transnational fraud’
Digital arrests and other versions of online scamming are the stuff of contemporary headlines. Snigdha Poonam went beyond the headlines to take a deep dive into the world inhabited by these scamsters in ‘Scamlands: Inside the Asian empire of fraud that preys on the world’. She tells Moneycontrol about what pushes them to take to scamming and why they can never leave
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‘Fiction allows for moral complexity without the need for moral clarity’
Rahul Pandita’s debut novel Our Friends in Good Houses follows a journalist’s foray into war zones. A journalist by vocation, he takes Moneycontrol through the difference between reporting and fiction, among other things.
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‘Tagore was almost singlehandedly responsible for trying to turn Santiniketan into a cosmopolitan place’
Upheavals of the 20th century triggered migrations and relationships that make most countries a cultural and social mosaic. India’s no exception. Chandana Dey unearthed one such story by publishing her Russian/Lithuanian Jewish grandmother’s memoir — Kotia to Ketaki: At Home Away from Home. She takes Moneycontrol through the fascinating backstory of the memoir.
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‘Men, women, non-binary people, everyone is aching for love’
Sonora Jha, an award winning novelist, has come out with another book ‘Intemperance’. It is at once a satirical feminist folktale and a meditation on how we might reach past all sense and still find love. In an interview to Moneycontrol, she explains the context to the book.
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‘What defines cults is not their label, but the methods they use to control, manipulate, and isolate people’
There isn’t much difference between cult leaders like Rampal, or other leaders who weaponize faith for control, or patriarchs who demand submission, writes Priyamvada Mehra in her memoir ‘The Cost of a Promised Afterlife’, which describes her family’s immersion into a cult.
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‘Artificial Intelligence has still a very long way to go before it can tell interesting stories’
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay has launched his own imprint titled Cipher Books (see logo). It is registered in Canada. The first book to be published under this imprint is The Wings of the Nike.
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Book Extract | Language of the Immortals: A Concise Study of Sanskrit by G. N. Devy
The fact that the canonical status of texts did not depend on the genre in which they were composed but rather on the function they were expected to perform in the sphere of their reception needs to be stressed when we consider the history of Sanskrit literature.
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Book Extract | A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile by Aatish Taseer
In Mongolia, the texture of sin felt less like a crime against God than against oneself. Three symbols are often associated with Danzanravjaa’s life and thought: a female figure representing his love of pleasure; a swan symbolizing the arts; and, lastly, a scorpion signifying the human potential for self-destructiveness
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Book Extract | 1975: The Year That Transformed Bollywood by Pratik Majumdar
The Emergency period was akin to a dark age for the Hindi film industry. Film-makers were unfairly forced to navigate an environment of intense scrutiny with curtailed artistic expression, and any deviation from state-approved narratives could lead to severe consequence
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Book Extract | The Lion of Naushera by Ziya Us Salam and Anand Mishra
Within weeks of India gaining independence, Kashmir resembled a battlefield because of Pakistan's repeated incursions to capture the Muslim-dominated princely state.
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Book Extract| The CIA Book Club by Charlie English
In the late 1960s, against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, CIA activities were increasingly scrutinized by the media and public officials.
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Book Extract | This is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
Today, experts in the AI field are rather crudely characterized as ‘AI boomers’ or ‘AI doomers’.
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Book Extract | How to Sleep Like a Caveman by Dr Merijn van de Laar
Data is available on mouth-taping and sleep, though this is mainly focused on a small sample of obstructive sleep apnoea patients.
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Book Extract: 'This is for Everyone' by Tim Berners-Lee
The groundbreaking memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is the story of our modern age.
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Book Extract | The Shortest History of Migration by Ian Goldin
The legal limbo in which asylum seekers find themselves typically hinders them from working or establishing themselves in their host communities.
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Book Extract | Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts
In sum, life appears to exult in blurring the boundaries we place upon it. Buffon’s observation from two and a half centuries ago seems more relevant than ever.
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Book Extract | [In]Complete Justice? The Supreme Court at 75 by S Muralidhar (Editor)
Gopal Subramanium was designated Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court at the young age of 35, and served as the Additional Solicitor General of India from 2005 to 2009, and as Solicitor General of India from 2009 to 2011.
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Book Extract | How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence by Matt Richtel
The transition from childhood to adulthood is a natural, evolution-honed cycle that now faces radical change and challenge.
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Book Extract | What's Up With Women and Money?
The best time to negotiate your salary is during the offer stage. Many companies—especially large, highly structured corporations— limit the percentage an employee’s compensation can be raised by during a calendar year.
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Book Extract |The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World by Philip Coggan
At times, Mr Trump seems to treat tariffs as a ‘miracle cure’ that can solve every ailment.
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Book Extract | India in Triangles: The Incredible Story of How India was Mapped and the Himalayas Measured by Shruthi Rao and Meera Iyer
Triangulation is also important in geodesy, the science of measuring the Earth’s shape….
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Book Extract | Song of India: A Study of the National Anthem by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Many of the ideas presented above from Tagore’s writings around 1910 and 1912, exactly the period when he composed ‘Jana Gana Mana’, are reflected in the song.
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Book Extract | The Piano Player of Budapest by Roxanne de Bastion
This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player — how it, along with him, survived
