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.
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.
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.
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
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. Meng Wanzhou’s father— Huawei’s reclusive founder, Ren Zhengfei— was a corporate legend in China.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Over the past 5,000 years, money has profoundly altered humanity and our relationships with each other and with the rest of the planet.
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.
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.
Gujaratis are known for their entrepreneurial spirit, and their love of business and the profitable deal.
Dharmanomics: An Indigenous and Sustainable Economic Model is already a bestseller in various categories.
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.
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'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.
Medieval Indian Chola kings gave the world many things: Nataraja bronzes, economic systems that persist today, words like cash...
