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Feb 20, 2021 07:52 AM IST Switching from one interest to another may not be “a failure of perseverance”. It could be an “astute recognition that better matches are available”.
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Feb 20, 2021 07:49 AM IST Gayathri Prabhu’s Love in Seven Easy Steps, Rucha Chitrodia’s It’s Also About Mynah and Madhavi S Mahadevan’s Bride of the Forest look at love and its many aftermaths.
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Feb 20, 2021 07:39 AM IST The Punished is a collection of short stories based on a study on death-row prisoners in India. In an exclusive interview with Moneycontrol, Anup Surendranath, the lead author of the study and Jahnavi Misra, who transformed the report into a set of stories speak on effectiveness, feasibility and ethics of capital punishment.
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Feb 13, 2021 09:36 AM IST Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain peers through a fog of amnesia and nostalgia to investigate how colonialism made Britain what it is today.
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Feb 13, 2021 08:29 AM IST As the Delhi High Court hears petitions to legalise same-sex marriages, Rodricks’ autobiography offers a glimpse into the struggles and life the designer and his partner, Jerome Marrel, built together.
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Feb 06, 2021 09:51 AM IST In Albert Cossery’s novel, some citizens plan to unseat the local governor by taking ridicule to an extreme.
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Jan 30, 2021 08:27 AM IST An absorbing new book shines a light on the time when the Hooghly was a global waterway attracting merchants, missionaries, statesmen, soldiers and others from all over.
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Jan 30, 2021 07:21 AM IST Set in an imaginary town called Jhunu, The Nameless God unfolds against the backdrop of an unforgettable event in recent Indian history – the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992, and the communal riots that followed right after.
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Jan 30, 2021 07:20 AM IST Arun Kumar, an economist with a decades-long career in academia and writing, has come up with the book Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis, an accessible and comprehensive survey of the havoc wreaked on the Indian economy by the pandemic.
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Jan 23, 2021 10:57 AM IST Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler’s book does not promise miracles or instant results. It only supports people ready to do the work it takes to free themselves from “habitual ways of thinking, feeling, and acting” that have held them “captive in the past.”
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Jan 20, 2021 10:41 AM IST The picture the author paints is at wide variance with the image we have of India as a vibrant emerging power
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Jan 16, 2021 08:51 AM IST Decorating an auditorium with rainbow flags is easy but creating a culture where LGBTQ employees feel safe and confident, and do not fear losing out on promotions, is a different ballgame.
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Jan 09, 2021 08:10 AM IST ‘The Brass Notebook’ is the no-holds-barred intimate and political memoir of feminist economist and academician Devaki Jain.
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Jan 09, 2021 07:51 AM IST In If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future, Lepore takes a close look at Simulmatics Corporation and reveals how data mining, and influencing human behaviour predates Facebook, Google and Amazon.
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Jan 02, 2021 08:21 AM IST Mortality is not optional but one can choose whether to live in denial or with equanimity is Arun Shourie’s message.
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Jan 02, 2021 08:13 AM IST With its eccentricity, its compelling readability, and its ability to reach a satisfying conclusion, Piranesi is quite simply among the more captivating novels of the quarantined year that we have just lived through.
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Dec 26, 2020 09:26 AM IST A foodie reviews two delicious works of food writing from South Asia and samples their traditional recipes as the new year dawns.
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Dec 26, 2020 08:13 AM IST The title might lead readers to imagine that this book is about the COVID-19 pandemic but it has a broader canvas.
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Dec 22, 2020 10:42 AM IST The authors’ provocative thesis is that it isn’t friction between countries but rising inequality within countries that has led to the current trade wars
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Dec 19, 2020 07:47 AM IST Ed Caesar’s new book, The Moth and the Mountain, is an engrossing and probing account of British mountaineer and aviator Maurice Wilson, who is known for his ill-fated attempt to climb Mount Everest alone in 1934.
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Dec 12, 2020 08:09 AM IST This freshly released biography of the President-elect of the United States of America is frank and uncompromising– so much so, that, in the service of the facts, it will embarrass the subject of the biography wherever appropriate.
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Dec 12, 2020 08:04 AM IST Published by Hodder and Stoughton, this book unpacks how WeWork founder Adam Neumann attracted investments worth billions of dollars with his charismatic appeal, soaring ambition, and ruthless networking.
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Dec 12, 2020 07:40 AM IST Marco Balzano’s new novel, I’m Staying Here, now translated into English by Jill Foulston, vividly illustrates that competing ideologies and nationalisms may be all very well on a global stage, but it’s often the people on the ground who have to pay the price.
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Dec 05, 2020 07:46 AM IST The book demonstrates how our behaviour is impacted by considerations which are avidly studied by economists – that much of our behaviour can be explained and demystified by explanations found in the science of economics.
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Nov 28, 2020 07:49 AM IST Bengali scholar Bani Basu's novel 'A Plate of White Marble' – first published in 1990 in the original Bengali as Swet Patharer Thala – gives English readers their first authentic taste of a stunning literary classic.