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AI would force architects to change their job profiles, Prof Neil Leach
The world renowned professor of architecture and thinker says single platforms to conceive designs and execution plans may be arriving in a few years, given the rapid rate of improvement in AI
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'Pyre' review | Caste in bold: Perumal Murugan's International Booker longlisted novel is a reality check
Will Perumal Murugan do a Geetanjali Shree and bring home the International Booker Prize? Like all his works, Murugan's inter-caste love tragedy, 'Pyre', translated from Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, is accessible, evocative, and a must-read to wrap one's head around caste discrimination.
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Book review: Harish Mehta's 'The Maverick Effect' is an engaging 'biography of Nasscom'
'The Maverick Effect' makes the case convincingly, and shows through anecdotes, how Nasscom was crucial for the growth and health of the software industry in India.
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Barkha Dutt: "Let people criticise my work, I am open to genuine criticism"
"Everybody wanted their story, or the story of somebody they loved, to be told. So I have named people in the book. No one is nameless or faceless."
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The Paris Bookseller review: A delectable novel about a personal journey that changed English-language literature forever
The book helps us to live vicariously in a world filled with the company of people who're transforming English-language literature, as well as passionate explorations of relationships, books, and good food.
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Book review: ‘Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History’ by Vidya Krishnan
Every so often, you get books which are warm enough to make the scales of jadedness drop from your eyes. One such book is 'Phantom Plague'.
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Madam Prime Minister review: An engrossing read amid a galaxy of others
There are a lot of sub-plots, which complicate the book in an entertaining way. Which is not to say they are all equally palatable.
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Anahita Dhondy: "We receive a story with every dish"
Chef Anahita Dhondy on leaving Sodabottleopenerwalla, writing her book 'The Parsi Kitchen', the impact of Covid on the restaurant industry and what's next for her.
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"The question was, how to translate them as if a Marathi poet had written them"
Three writers on translating 'Walk', a book of poems about the 2020 exodus of migrant workers from Indian cities to villages, from English to Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.
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Cut short by the pandemic, a tight edit of Mehlli Gobhai's retrospective has found a new home
"One of Mehlli’s favourite tests for the effect an art work had on you was expressed in this way: “Does it make you go ‘A-ha!’ or does it make you go ‘So what?’" - Nancy Adajania
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Review | 'Orienting: An Indian in Japan': A moving portrait of the country, by a globetrotting journalist
A memorable memoir of absorption of culture and making a place home, of engaging with the unfamiliar with curiosity, respectfully and without exoticizing it, and letting it make a home in you.
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Review | 'Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment': Daniel Kahneman's new book shows us why the boss' mood and other seemingly extraneous details matter
Why is it that given the same data, people arrive at different decisions? Why is it that the same person can reach different conclusions at different times? And what implications does this have for life, the justice system, and for business? 'Noise' takes on these questions, and offers some solutions.
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Book review | 'Rethinking Competitive Advantage': Ram Charan's lucid guide to six traits of successful businesses
The book lists and illustrates concepts like increasing returns and company ecosystem that give digital firms an edge over traditional businesses.
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Book review: An anthology of short stories by women, about (mostly upper-caste Hindu) women
Mainstream and entertaining, the stories in this book will appeal to most people.
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Book review | Why borders resemble bad fiction
Suchitra Vijayan's new book 'Midnight’s Borders' is the result of seven years of travels through border areas, including the borders between India and China, India and Pakistan and India and Myanmar.
INDIA
COVID and its impact on India | New book relies on economics to shine light on human face of tragedy
Arun Kumar, an economist with a decades-long career in academia and writing, has come up with the book Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis, an accessible and comprehensive survey of the havoc wreaked on the Indian economy by the pandemic.
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Book review | Journalist Evan Osnos' breezy biography assesses track record and psychology of Joe Biden, warts and all
This freshly released biography of the President-elect of the United States of America is frank and uncompromising– so much so, that, in the service of the facts, it will embarrass the subject of the biography wherever appropriate.
BUSINESS
Book review: When superstar of financial journalism Guy Raz delivers business lessons through success stories
The book by Guy Raz and Nils Parker is a distillate of key learnings that Raz has gathered from his interviews.
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Hard work is not enough; this book will tell you what you really need to do
Utkarsh Amitabh's book The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work targets millennials and busts several common workplace myths.
BUSINESS
Book Review: ‘Pandeymonium’ — a glimpse into iconic ad maker Piyush Pandey's mindset, thought process
Piyush Pandey was among those Indians who most effectively linked life’s priceless moments to the marketing of products and services -- a linkage that was neither essential nor inevitable.
BUSINESS
Book Review: The power of Amazon and what businesses can learn from the e-commerce giant
Bezonomics: How Amazon is Changing Our Lives and What the World’s Best Companies are Learning from it is a breezy biographical profile of Jeff Bezos, and connects the dots about how Amazon has infiltrated our daily lives
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Book Review: Author Daniel Susskind offers a peek into future of work, AI and human society
The writer points out that those who take solace in the assumption that only routine tasks can be automated should realise that many non-routine tasks are also being taken over by AI, such as driving a car.
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Book review: ‘Tata vs Mistry’ shows how personal psychology impacts a corporate’s trajectory
Like any responsible writer, Deepali Gupta steers clear of speculation and points to what the available information says, thus demonstrating a journalist’s even-keeled outlook towards her subject matter.
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Book Review: Marc Randolph’s Netflix story offers a dose of can-do spirit to would-be entrepreneurs
The author seems to have had an audience in mind while writing this book; people like him, people with an entrepreneurial streak; people who like generating ideas, developing them, and expanding them into business plans; It is to them that Randolph is opening up.
