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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 REVIEW| Bangladesh remains a society at war with itself
The ouster of Sheikh Hasina in August 2024 by student-led protests promised, even if momentarily, a new beginning. Almost 18 months later, the cast of characters have changed but democracy continues to be suppressed. In addition, minorities live in fear. This book explains yet another betrayal in the country’s tumultuous journey
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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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'A very important learning from Ratan Tata's life is to lead a life of integrity': ex Tata Group executive Harish Bhat
Ratan Tata took over the reins of Tata Group in 1991, just as economic liberalization was set to open Indian firms up to foreign competition. Author Harish Bhat, who worked with Tata Group companies between 1987 and 2023, culls lessons from Tata's life and work for how to ride out systemic changes, among other things.
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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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Does the world need another book on leadership? Ex-Crisil, ex-Omidyar Network executive Roopa Kudva explains why she wrote hers
Roopa Kudva on leadership, leading through crises, checklists for leaders and how her book is not competing with 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' or 'Nudge' or 'How to Win Friends and Influence People', and other classics among leadership books.
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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 Review: Why The Poor Don’t Kill Us by Manu Joseph
Manu Joseph’s first non-fiction work is a ruthless and unsettling mirror held up to the ‘republic of privilege’. It prods, provokes, embarrasses and leaves a burn that lingers long after the laughter fades
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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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Indian history | 'M Visvesvaraya was an arch modernist. He wanted India to follow the path of the early industrializing nations'
From the Bengaluru railway station at Baiyyapanahalli to engineering colleges and museums, there are many public places named after Sir M Visvesvaraya. And yet, historian Aparajith Ramnath explains, most of us today know little about man and the influence he had on the making of modern India.
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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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Shashi Tharoor on 2026 Kerala Literature Festival: 'Literature is about illuminating the human condition'
The ninth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival will have delegations from 17 countries. At the Delhi curtain raiser, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor spoke about the power of translations and what to expect at Kozhikode Beach from January 22-26.
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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 Review: The Great Sanctions Hack by Urjit Patel
Dr. Urjit Patel’s new book is a sober reckoning with the 21st century’s most potent yet misunderstood weapon — economic sanctions. It is a timely reminder that what can be used as leverage abroad could just as easily become a liability at home
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Indian science fiction has a long history. A new anthology of speculative writing from India takes the tradition forward
Gautam Bhatia on editing the annual 'IF' anthology series of Indian speculative fiction, speculative fiction vs science fiction, themes and timelines in Indian speculative fiction, why sci-fi is a genre of modernity, and how and when it came to India.
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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
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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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Book Extract | The Dark-Coloured Waters: A Journey Along River Chenab by Danesh Rana
The Dark-Coloured Waters is as much the story of a river as it is of a man shaped by its course.
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Book Extract | Kotia to Ketaki: At Home Away from Home by Ketaki Sarkar and Chandana Dey
The Russian countryside is of infinite beauty; just imagine endless stretches of golden wheat. It is a pity I am not a writer; I lack words to convey my feelings.
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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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Beyond Ikigai, a Japanese philosophy for greater job satisfaction based on moving meditation, mindful listening and Aisatsu
A Japanese Buddhist monk explains why your office should feel more like a dojo than a battlefield - and shares three no-cost rituals to get you started on practicing three tenets of Jōdo Shinshū philosophy at the workplace.
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Book Extract | A Sixth Of Humanity: Independent India's Development Odyssey by Devesh Kapur & Arvind Subramanian
The rapid growth between 1960 and 1980 was experienced most by Haryana and Punjab, a testament to the Green Revolution
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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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Book Extract: Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey
Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey is a husband and a father, an eternal optimist, a hopeful skeptic, and a man of faith who believes that we should all start sellin' Sunday morning like a Saturday night.
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Book Extract | 50 Years of the Indian Emergency: Lessons for Democracy by Peter Ronald deSouza & Harsh Sethi
Politics is understandably prominent in the Dandavate prison letters
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Book Extract | The Shortest History of Music by Andrew Ford
Fans of Rodgers and Hammerstein will notice that Do and Ti are missing from Guido’s scale.
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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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Book review: Architect who built Nirav Modi’s now-demolished seaside bungalow releases his memoir, and it’s gently funny
An architect's memoir: Over 30 years, Matharoo Associates founder Gurjit Singh Matharoo has worked with a wide cast of clients, to design luxury homes, temples, institutions. His memoir offers a peek into what's changed, and what's remained the same, in these decades.
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Book Extract | Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Is a River Alive? unfolds across three main landscapes.
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Book Extract | Running behind Lakshmi: The Search for Wealth in India's Stock Market by Adil Rustomjee
India’s first bull run followed a pattern that was to repeat itself in subsequent episodes. Initially, a displacement occurs, which changes people’s belief in the future.
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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 | In Those Days There Was No Coffee by A.R. Venkatachalapathy
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Book Extract | The Health and Wealth Paradox: How to Use First Principles Thinking to Achieve Both by Ankush Datar and Mihir Patki
With attention spans falling, few people have the patience or capacity for concentration to read and understand information in a more focussed manner
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Bhagavad Gita for Everyday Living author Swami Mukundananda: 'AI handles information, and the Gita guides intention'
Swami Mukundananda on his new book 'Bhagavad Gita for Everyday Living: Selected Verses with Key Takeaways', what the Bhagavad Gita teaches us, and its relevance for modern living in the age of artificial intelligence and more scientific discoveries.
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Book Extract: Fluke - Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Brian Klaas grew up in Minnesota, earned his DPhil at Oxford, and is now a professor of global politics at University College London. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, host of the award-winning Power Corrupts podcast, and frequent guest on national television.
