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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

Book Extract: The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World by Fernanda Perie

Many other respected sets of laws have been highly impractical in quite puzzling ways, including those developed by the authors of the Old Testament. Although inspired by the Mesopotamian tradition, where law was the work of kings, the Israelite priests were pursuing a distinctly religious project.

Book Extract: The House of Huawei by Eva Duo

Book Extract: The House of Huawei by Eva Duo. Meng Wanzhou’s father— Huawei’s reclusive founder, Ren Zhengfei— was a corporate legend in China.

Book Extract: Wild Fictions

From the significance of the commodification of the clove to the diversity of the mangrove forests in Bengal and the radical fluidity of multilingualism, Wild Fictions is a powerful refutation of imperial violence

Book Extract - The Art of Physics: Eight elegant ideas to make sense of almost everything

This book is about the hidden, surprising, and sometimes beautiful ways in which physics could help you make sense of a chaotic and unpredictable world.

Ikigai coauthor Francesc Miralles on how India made him a writer & 3 exercises to get in flow state for better productivity

The secret to a long and healthy life? It has 'a lot to do with serenity and activity. If you are not stressed and you have things to do and you have friends, you can have a lot of fuel to become 100 and even more,' says Ikigai coauthor.

Book Extract: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Over 1,800 years ago, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrestled with these same struggles, jotting down his thoughts in what became Meditations. Surprisingly, his reflections feel just as relevant today.

Book Extract – Tested: Big Decisions. Small Decisions. The remarkable power of resolve

Tested is a book of insight and hard-earned wisdom about how the power of resolve to make decisions, big and small, and see them through, is at the heart of all our stories.

What Dalits Eat: Why Shahu Patole wrote India’s first-ever book on Dalit food history

Marathi writer Shahu Patole & translator Bhaskar Korgaonkar talk about 'Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada', the English translation of the original 'Anna He Apoorna Brahma' & the little-known food practices of Maharashtra’s Dalit subcastes Mahar & Mang.

Book Extract |The Uncomfortable Truth About Money: How to live with uncertainty and think about yourself

This book takes those money lessons learned, really a series of frameworks, and makes them accessible for any reader who, like me years ago, has no clue how money works.

Book Extract | My Head for a Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi

My Head for a Tree offers a timely reflection on indigenous, community-based activism and how we might adjust our lives to fight for the natural world.

India Before the Ambanis review: How Indian business changed the course of history over 300-plus years

Business history: In 'India Before the Ambanis', historian Lakshmi Subramanian lays out the context in which Indian business influenced history for more than 300 years, from the time of the Mughals till the 1950s.

Book extract- David McWilliams Money: A Story of Humanity

Over the past 5,000 years, money has profoundly altered humanity and our relationships with each other and with the rest of the planet.

What is massive gravity & how is it saving life on earth? Imperial College of London physics professor explains

Coolest thing about gravity that most people don't know, one sci-fi film that got the physics of gravity right, why blackholes are so interesting, how Harry Potter-style portkeys are theoretically possible & more questions answered by Imperial College London Professor Claudia de Rham.

Book Review: Flowers on a Kargil Cliff

Incorporating unpublished photographs of Point 5353 in Drass taken by Pakistani intrusive patrols in Oct 1998 during the Kargil build-up, Flowers on a Kargil Cliff establishes how 5353 and Bajrang Post were captured. Photos reveal Gen P. Musharraf and his entourage of generals across LoC in March '99.

Book Extract | The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community

Gujaratis are known for their entrepreneurial spirit, and their love of business and the profitable deal.

Book Review | Dharmanomics: Treasure trove of economic wisdom

Dharmanomics: An Indigenous and Sustainable Economic Model is already a bestseller in various categories.

Book review: First Global's Devina Mehra does not want you following investors Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio's example

Money, Myths and Mantras: The Ultimate Investment Guide by Devina Mehra is written simply, with lots of examples and cautionary tales to present her understanding of, and her company's practice around, what to do and what not to do when investing your money.

Myths & folktales from Arunachal Pradesh: Tara Douglas & Jatwang Wangsa's illustrated book is a valiant effort to preserve oral history

Book review: Incredibly visual and fantastical, the short stories in 'Myth, Memory & Folktale of the Wancho Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh' are just as entertaining as they are thought-provoking, not least because they aren't well-known to Indians outside the North-East.

Amitav Ghosh on why the original American model of wildlife conservation doesn't work, Donald Trump & end of Eurocentricity in the world

Amitav Ghosh's new book review: 'Wild Fictions' offers a glimpse into the mind of Amitav Ghosh, and on to the world through the lens of a well-read and widely travelled anthropologist-turned-writer.

How medieval India's wealth, power and influence grew under the Chola kings - and queens

Medieval Indian Chola kings gave the world many things: Nataraja bronzes, economic systems that persist today, words like cash...

Book Review | Fire Weather - A True Story from a Hotter World Sceptre by John Vaillant

Fire Weather is an astounding account of this century's most intense urban fire, and an urgent examination of humanity's future in an ever-hotter, more flammable world.

Why Amitabh Kant had to get involved when China wanted US visa guarantees for 2026 G20 Summit

Amitabh Kant on why he thinks the 'G20 is today a far more important body than the United Nation', why developed countries need to cough up trillions of dollars in climate finance instead of billions and how the Global South representing over 80 percent of the world population can increase its influence in international fora.

Book Review | The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out

McKinsey & Company’s prestigious two-day workshop Bower Forum is a unique platform for a small group of CEOs or Chairpersons to discuss goals, challenges, and role-specific issues, while counselling and learning from one another.

Book Review | 'How India scaled Mt G20: The Inside Story of The G20 Presidency' by Amitabh Kant

In How India Scaled Mt G20, Amitabh Kant, India’s G20 Sherpa, offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the intense negotiations, strategic manoeuvring, and backroom diplomacy that defined India’s presidency.

Book extract - Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

Scott Young, bestselling author of Ultralearning, explores why it’s so difficult for people to learn new skills, arguing that three factors must be met to make advancement possible

Book extract - Unlocking Wealth: Secrets to Getting Rich at Any Age

A book for budding investors as well as High Net Worth Individuals (HNIs), Unlocking Wealth demystifies the process of wealth creation.

Isaac Asimov's 105th birth anniversary: what you need to know about the GOAT sci-fi writer

Born in Russia in 1902, Isaac Asimov first read a science fiction magazine in 1929. His experiments in writing began a couple years later. In June 1938, a publisher rejected his first story, but offered copious notes that Asimov said he found useful.

Who needs another book of chocolate recipes & how to make an eggless lamington cake for New Year 2025

Made for India: Bake with Shivesh creator Shivesh Bhatia's fifth and latest book has (mostly) eggless chocolate recipes that are on-trend for 2025. (Think chocolate pistachio thumbprint cookies.) What's missing is something to challenge the palate and really push chocolate as an ingredient in Indian kitchens.

Book Review: Friends | A realist view of India’s place in the global order

In an admirable academic manner, Chaulia looks at the many definitions and many examples of “middle power”, he rightly concludes that India does not fit into the slot of middle power, that is being a camp follower of the United States like Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea.

Book Excerpt: The Only Constant

In The Only Constant, celebrated poet and educator Najwa Zebian guides her reader through the changes we must make (or those we need to endure) on the journey to our most authentic lives.

Book Extract – Amol Palekar's Viewfinder: A Memoir

Read Viewfinder. Acquaint yourself with historical transformations and their impact upon subsequent generations of artists. Amol Palekar is a gentleman artist who cannot be ignored and should not be too!

Casting the Buddha: A monumental history of Buddhism in India

The book “Casting the Buddha: A Monumental History of Buddhism in India” by Shashank Shekhar Sinha traces 2500 years of history of Buddha and Buddhism.

When Indian Air Force flew to the rescue just hours after 2004 Tsunami hit & more stories of skill and courage in the IAF

Wing Commander (Retd) Arijit Ghosh on how a team from the Indian Air Force rescued 58 people from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on an aircraft made for just 25 in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami, other stories of courage and skill from the Indian Air Force, and his book 'Air Warriors'.

Book Extract: Uptime

Laura Mae Martin coaches Google’s top executives on the best ways to manage their time and energy and sends out a weekly productivity newsletter that reaches over fifty thousand employees.

Book Extract: A Stitch in Time

A Stitch in Time is the story of a woman who was able to overcome her challenges when all odds were against her, through sheer perseverance and grit.

Why IIMA Professor Pankaj Setia offers Rs 5 crore to Rs 10 crore to students as a thought experiment

A world without jobs? Information Systems Prof. Pankaj Setia, who also runs the Centre for Digital Transformation at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), on revisiting human purpose and work in the age of artificial intelligence.

Why Samvidhan architect BR Ambedkar was an original thinker, despite borrowing freely from others

'A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of BR Ambedkar' author Ashok Gopal on why the world needed another biography of BR Ambedkar, why Babasaheb was unique among his contemporaries, and the flavour of Ambedkar's own writing in Marathi as well as English.

Book Extract | Benjamin Graham & Jason Zweig, The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing (Third Edition)

The Intelligent Investor was first published in 1949. The goal of this commemorative 75th anniversary edition is to integrate Graham’s classic insights with today’s market realities.