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Removal of poverty as the objective and growth and redistribution as joint instruments to achieve it remained integral to Nehru’s thinking throughout his tenure as prime minister.

Vikram Sampath on how to train AI to translate idioms like 'Bhains ke aage been bajana'

NAAV.AI cofounder and author of 10 books Vikram Sampath on training agentic AI for translating books into Indian regional languages, and what the speed and ease of translating with AI could mean for content across Indian languages.

Book Extract| The Ghadar Movement: A Forgotten Struggle by Rana Preet Gill

Owing to lapses in planning and the presence of informers in their midst, the plan ultimately failed and the British came down very heavily on the conspirators.

Book Extract | Mumbai's Most Wanted by Madhukar Zende and Jai Vijaya Madhukar Zende

If the driver got to Sobhraj and alerted him, there would be hell to pay. We could not preclude the possibility of Sobhraj and Hall pulling out a weapon, or even taking a hostage or two from the wedding party

Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham on going 'All In': IIT-IIM and big-city background not crucial to start-up success

Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham on riding the AI wave, his 2025 memoir All In, how he prefers sharing anecdotes to giving 'gyan', and his love of chess, cars and watches.

Book Extract: Apple in China

As Trump wages a tariff war with China, seeking to boost domestic electronics manufacturing, this book offers an unparalleled insight into why his strategy is embarrassingly naïve.

Book Extract - A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory

Until forty years ago, we couldn't forecast weather conditions beyond ten days. Renowned climate scientist Dr. Jagadish Shukla is largely to thank for modern weather forecasting.

Book Extract | Our Future is Biotech by Andrew Craig

Biotech means that we can all live better, safer, healthier, wealthier, happier, and longer lives.

Book Extract | Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish by Alexander Clapp

Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing.

Forbes India celebrates 16 years with landmark anniversary issue, exploring the possibilities disruption brings

A striking new cover design, a departure from past visual identities, marks this momentous issue.

Book Extract | Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child's Life

In September 2017, a photo of Max in his hospital bed dominated the front page of The Mirror once more.

Book Extract | Rethinking Work: Seismic Changes in the Where, When, and Why by Rishad Tobaccowala

Because of AI and deepfake technology, it is possible to put words in the mouth of an individual or create a video that integrates the likeness of that person (without their permission)

Isabel Allende: 'The theme of refugees is in the air, in the news, in the collective consciousness. It cannot be ignored'

Novelist Isabel Allende on being 'eternally displaced', and why 1891 is a big year in her latest novel 'My Name is Emilia del Valle'.

The Goat Life author Benyamin: Jesus turning water into wine 'was a social transformation event'

Benyamin on why he thinks 'The Second Book of Prophets' is unlike anything he's written before, and translator Ministhy S. on why she had to read other books before taking up the Malayalam to English translation of Benyamin's latest novel.

Book Extract | AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence by Gary Rivlin

Artificial Intelligence has been 'just around the corner' for decades, continually disappointing those who long believed in its potential

Book Extract | Our Living Constitution: A Concise Introduction & Commentary by Shashi Tharoor

India is a country held together, in the words of Nehru, ‘by strong but invisible threads...a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and yet very real and present and pervasive.’

Chetan Bhagat of Bengali literature Smaranjit Chakraborty: 'Sense of being successful is the death knell for any writer'

Winner of the million-rupee Ananda Purashkar 2025, Bengali author Smaranjit Chakraborty on the secret of his success, the storyline of 'Shunyo Pother Mallika', translating Jhumpa Lahiri, and his desire to 'tell stories that convey the message of love and harmony'.

Book Extract | Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper by Chander Mohan and Jyotsna Mohan

By the late 1800s and first two decades of the twentieth century, several periodicals and newspapers came out in undivided India

Book Extract |The Mindfulness Survival Kit: Five Essential Practices by Thich Naht Hahn

We can practice loving speech in our writing as well. Many people now communicate by email and text messaging more than they do in person or on the telephone.

Book Extract | Test Cricket: A Biography: The Story of Test Cricket 1877 to Today by Tim Wigmore

In India, Tendulkar became ubiquitous in a manner that not even Gavaskar had rivalled. Only when driving around Mumbai in the early hours could he roam freely.

Book Extract | A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Memory begins with Ba Má, their images like photographs, their story like a movie, the kind found in the black box of a VHS tape, in an era when I have long ago gotten rid of my VCR.

Why NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang wants to build a dishwashing robot, and how he hopes to do it without breaking any plates

'Thinking Machine' author Stephen Witt on how NVIDIA's graphics processing units came to be at the forefront of artificial intelligence today, and what makes cofounder Jensen Huang tick.

Lt Gen (Retd) Y.K. Joshi on the Kargil War, his memoir and safeguards for war in the age of social media

Lt Gen (Retd) Yogesh Kumar Joshi—who retired as Northern Army Commander in 2022—on his memoir, key lessons he learnt over his 40 years of service from 1982–2022, the Kargil War and India's relations with neighbouring countries.

Book Review | The Trial That Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence

According to Ray, the British retreat in the INA case set off the process in London of granting complete independence to India which materialized in record time, so to say.

Book Extract | Tea : A Global History (Edible Series) by Helen Saberi

India exports tea to more than 25 countries throughout the world. Russia, Iran, UAE, USA, the UK, Germany, and China are some of the major importers of tea from India.

Book Extract | Speaking with Nature: The Origin of Indian Environmentalism by Ramachandra Guha

By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environmental consciousness.

Strategic autonomy would have been a subset of Indian non-alignment, says 'Nehru Years' author

What is the legacy of Indian Non-Alignment, is strategic autonomy non-alignment by another name, and how Indian Non-Alignment was non-imperialist in its DNA—'The Nehru Years' author, Swapna Kona Nayudu, explains.

The Undying Light : A Personal History of Independent India by Gopalkrishna Gandhi

This remarkable memoir, and history of India after Independence, by one of India’s most distinguished public intellectuals, begins with his memories of the assassination of his paternal grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi.

'Careless People' review: 'Darkly funny' is exactly right

Alleged sexual harassment, apathy and a ridiculous amount of navel-gazing and entitlement: Former Facebook global policy head Sarah Wynn-Williams' book about working at the social media giant from 2011-17 paints a hilarious but grim picture.

Book Extract | The Indian Constitution: A Conversation in Power by Gautam Bhatia

The Indian Constitution: Conversations with Power takes a new approach in discussing the Constitution: as a document that creates, shapes, channels and constrains power.

Book Extract | Crossing Paths in America and India: Memories Essays Reviews by Leonard A. Gordon

A memoir of learning, involvements, and teaching…Leonard Gordon tracks his connection to India beginning in the 1960s as he became an outsider/ insider in its society visiting often over six decades.

Indian writer Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp wins GBP 50,000 International Booker 2025

Heart Lamp review: Banu Mushtaq's stories follow the lives of Muslim women who are constrained by tradition and responsibilities. Her protagonists are denied opportunities and resented for airing grievances. And yet, none of the stories reads like a lament.

Book Extract | The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life by Allison Fallon

Maybe, for now, it’s just the questions you write down. No answers at all. Maybe, over time, answers begin to come.

Book Extract | GeoTechnoGraphy: Mapping Power and Identity in the Digital Age by Samir Saran and Anirban Sarma

With the advance of the twenty-first century, we have moved deeper into the Fourth Industrial Revolution—a tech-driven epoch that ‘builds on the digital revolution and combines multiple technologies’ leading to paradigm shifts in every sphere.

Gautam Bhatia: 'Any Constitutional document is essentially a power map of that country... India's Constitution has insufficiently democratized the colonial power map'

Lawyer and author Gautam Bhatia on what every citizen needs to know about the Indian Constitution, and spaces for public participation in our 75-year-old Constitution.

Book Extract: Raisina Chronicles: India’s Global Public Square

Raisina Chronicles reflects on the Dialogue’s journey and brings to its readers a single volume containing thorough insights and unbridled optimism for finding common solutions to global challenges

Book Extract: Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work

Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them.

Dream Count review: A book about four West Africans that will keep the curious Googling

Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Covid-era novel about mothers and daughters is also an introduction to West African culture, food and history. Look out for the para about Delhi towards the end of the book!

Book Excerpt| Ananda: An Exploration of Cannabis in India by Karan Madhok

Cannabis, or ganja, is practically as old as recorded Indian civilization, with references to the plant being found in some of India’s earliest written texts and myths.

Book Extract: Now that I have your attention by Nicholas Hamilton

Nicolas Hamilton has been exceeding expectations since day one. He is the paternal half-brother of the legendary racing car driver Lewis Hamilton

100 Indian stories in English translation: From Odia literature's Bamacharan Mitra to Rajasthan's Vijaydan Detha, the making of an anthology

From Bengal to Maharashtra and from the Hindi heartland to the four southern states, editor AJ Thomas has curated a sampling menu of short stories from different regions, languages, time periods and styles in '100 Indian Stories'.

This illustrated kids' book explains where pashmina fiber comes from and the experience of being Tibetan in exile

What's the link between centuries-old Tibetan Thangka paintings and Banarasi silk? Why is Ladakh so important for Kashmiri pashmina? Where and how do Tibetans born in exile engage with Tibetan language, food and culture? Author Jordan Quill drew upon years of research into North Indian and Tibetan textiles as well as Thangka religious scrolls for an illustrated children's book that delves into these questions.

'No lack of engineering expertise in India': 2023 Silkyara tunnel collapse rescue expert Arnold Dix

Tunnel collapse rescue expert Arnold Dix on his book 'The Promise', about Operation Zindagi to rescue 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel collapse in November 2023; and things India should consider for the next 20-plus years of tunnelling and underground infrastructure projects.

7 new books for International Women's Day gifting

India’s International Booker Prize 2025 contender Heart Lamp, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s first novel in a decade and 5 more books to read and / or gift for International Women's Day 2025.

Book extract: The Dirty Dozen by N. Sundaresha Subramanian

In June 2017, the Reserve Bank of India sent shockwaves through the nation as it disclosed a list of the country’s twelve biggest defaulters who were responsible for approximately a quarter of all bad loans in the Indian banking system.

Book Extract: Buffett’s Early Investments by Brett Gardner

Buffett's Early Investments investigates ten investments that legendary investor Warren Buffett made in the 1950s and 1960s – earning him his first million – and uncovers unique insights