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Book Extract | Troubleshooter: The Untold Encounters of IPS Officer K. P. Raghuvanshi
The officer understood who the remark was directed towards and looked towards the floor, ashamed.
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Book Extract: The Shortest History of AI
Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in Artificial Intelligence.
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Book Extract | Scamlands: Inside the Asian empire of fraud that preys on the world
Snigdha Poonam’s Scamlands takes you to parts of the world where a scamster is born every minute.
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Book Extract | Sound Affects: How Sound Shapes Our Lives, Our Wellbeing and Our Planet
Julian Treasure is a sought-after and top-rated international speaker. Collectively his five TED talks on various aspects of sound and communication have been viewed more than 50 million times.
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Book Extract | Memes For Mummyji: Making Sense of Post-Smartphone India
From selfies and what they mean to the travails of modern love and the new vocabulary of politics, Santosh Desai returns to chronicle the invisible revolutions of Indian life with his signature wit and insight.
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Book Extract | The Blue Potter: The Creative Genius of Punjab
The Blue Potter: The Creative Genius of Punjab is a collection of seventeen character sketches by Ajeet Cour.
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Book Extract | Coffee King: The Swift Rise and Sudden Death of Café Coffee Day Founder VG Siddhartha
This investigative reporting was done despite not being given access to those who knew V. G. Siddhartha well except for his mother.
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Book Extract - Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
Seven Rivers is story of the Nile, Danube, Niger, Mississippi, Ganges, Yangtze and the Thames. It is a story of imperial frontiers, alluvial gold, kidnappings, slavery, anticolonialism and creation myths.
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Book Extract - Caste: A Global Story
Leading scholar Suraj Milind Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured labourers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers in the Middle East.
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‘I asked writers to anchor on a quintessential Bombay character rather than nostalgia and hidden gullies’
Anindita Ghose shepherded some of the most widely followed Indian writers in English to come up with The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories. It’s unlikely any other Indian city provides both a geographical context and an emotional canvas for Indian writing in English as often as Mumbai. Ghose, in an interview with Moneycontrol, explained the idea behind the book.
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Book Extract: Governors of Empire: The East India Company’s Chief Functionaries in India
In Governors of Empire, historian Amar Farooqui traces the journeys each of these men undertook, from arriving on Indian shores, through acquiring territories using equal parts trade agreements and political deceit, all the way to returning to Britain considerably wealthier than before.
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Book Extract - How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage
In How to Be Bold, Ranjay Gulati offers a powerful playbook for becoming bolder and braver than we ever thought possible.
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Book Extract | Malala Yousafzai's Finding My Way
The instructor pushed the boat off the dock with her oar. I rowed as hard as I could but did little more than splash the water’s surface, alternating between saying prayers and holding my breath for the entire practice
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Book Extract - Heartbeats: A Memoir, Björn Borg
Hailed as one of the most talented players to ever step onto a tennis court, Borg collected the game's highest honours, including eleven Grand Slam titles - with five consecutive Wimbledon titles — establishing himself as one of the greatest of all time
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Book Extract: Invisible Housemates
This book not only brings you folk stories, myths and details of local and cultural beliefs about these animals, but also information about the roles they play in shaping modern pop-culture and scientific inquiry – leading to breakthroughs that can save lives.
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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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Book Extract: A Good Life: The Power of Palliative Care
In this sensitively written book, award-winning writer, Jerry Pinto delves into the realm of palliative care through intimate stories of patients, families and devoted caregivers
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Book Extract – The Sensual Self: Explorations of Love, Sex & Romance by Shobhaa Dé
In this provocative book, The Sensual Self: Explorations of Love, Sex & Romance, bestselling author Shobhaa Dé asks you to ditch the rulebook and ‘abandon good sense’ when it comes to owning your sensuality.
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Book Extract – Uncoded: A Technological History of Independent India
Uncoded: A Technological History of Independent India is a story of one of the greatest technological transformations in the modern world.
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Book Extract: The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It
The Hiroshima Men's unique narrative recounts the decade-long journey towards this first atomic attack.
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Book Extract: Why The Poor Don’t Kill Us: The Psychology of Indians
In this diagnosis of contemporary Indian society, with a tinge of dark humour, acclaimed writer Manu Joseph explores why the poor don’t rise in revolt against the rich despite living in one of the most unequal regions of the world.
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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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Book Extract | Economica: A global history of women, wealth and power by Victoria Bateman
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Book Extract | Team: Getting Things Done with Others by David Allen and Edward Lamont
By building on the effectiveness of what GTD does for individuals, Team will offer a better way of working in an organisation, while simultaneously nourishing a culture that allows individuals' skills to flourish
