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.
Book Extract: The Shortest History of AI
Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in Artificial Intelligence.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
