Book Review

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.

[In]Complete Justice: Reflecting on the Supreme Court at 75 -- triumphs and trials

The book ‘[In]Complete Justice: The Supreme Court at 75, Critical Reflections’ critically examines the Supreme Court's evolution, highlighting its successes, failures, judicial activism, and key reforms. It explores the Court’s role in shaping India’s democracy, law, and social justice

Book review: Source Code by Bill Gates is also the story of a computer revolution

Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Rick, and many others developed software that made computers intelligible to the common man. Bill Gates' Source Code is the story of that revolution, and that moment in tech history.

Book review: Arundhati Roy's candid memoir, about her relationship with mother Mary Roy, is unputdownable

Arundhati Roy shot to international fame after becoming the first Indian citizen to win the Booker Prize for her novel, 'The God of Small Things'. Her memoir, 'Mother Mary Comes to Me', is a moving account of her relationship with her influential mother.

Book Review | A framework to make sense of our bewildering era

There’s an unprecedented shift in geopolitics, technology and balance of power in the backdrop of a looming climate shock. All of them are happening at the same time. It’s a book that takes the reader through the forces of transition and provides the means to connect dots.

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.

'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.

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 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 | 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.

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 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.

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!

Book Review | The Rocky Road to Prosperity

Prosenjit Datta’s book is a rare find in these lamentably polarised times—it is an impartial analysis that weighs the pros and cons carefully and hopes that policy makers have the good sense to make our dream of becoming a developed economy come true in our lifetimes

Book extract: Be your own leadership coach

You lead yourself by choosing priorities and making choices that move you closer to the outcomes you want and away from outcomes you don’t.

Book Extract: Tune In: How to make smarter decisions in a noisy world

It is the kind of book that one is constantly dipping in and out of. Every time, you visit a page, you learn something new, or manage to look at it with a fresh pair of eyes.

Book extract: The Unfinished Quest

Paul’s analysis of India’s quest for status also sheds important light on the current geo-strategic situation and serves as a new framework for understanding the China–India rivalry, as well as India’s relative position in the broader Indo-Pacific theater.

Book Extract: Pattern Breakers

There are plenty of case studies and tips to glean from Pattern Breakers. Not all of them are easy to encapsulate here. The introduction does a fair job to give some insights in the chapters but it is better if you read the book for yourself.

Book Extract — Golwalkar: The Myth Behind the Man, the Man Behind the Machine

Golwalkar’s ideological influence was enormous—and it did not end with his death.