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December 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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December 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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December 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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November 28, 2020 12:26 PM IST Of the several exciting titles that 2021 has in store, there are some that I resolutely plan to avoid. Here, in no particular order, are the gory details.
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November 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.
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September 05, 2020 07:42 AM IST One of the fallouts of a post-pandemic workplace will be a fewer number of what the influential activist and anthropologist David Graeber provocatively called "bullshit jobs".
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August 29, 2020 07:46 AM IST The power of stories in general is that they offer ways to understand experiences, and to perceive the world by imposing order on it. They also allow us to create and define identities that form, in Benedict Anderson’s influential words, “imagined communities”.
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August 22, 2020 07:56 AM IST Many writers who have spent so much time and energy on their work now risk being part of an enormous crowd, or even rendered invisible.
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August 15, 2020 09:45 AM IST While The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook displays a variety of engagements with the external world, frequently mediated through the Internet, Shruti Swamy’s A House Is A Body explores facets of internal lives.
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August 08, 2020 03:00 PM IST The ethics and implications of so-called disaster tourism are at the heart of Korean writer Yun Ko-Eun’s sardonic new novel, translated into English by Lizzie Buehler.
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August 01, 2020 10:11 AM IST The unique self-help book excels in explaining why we get distracted so easily.
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August 01, 2020 10:08 AM IST Two short, dissimilar books by philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy and novelist Zadie Smith are vistas of our changed lives.
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June 20, 2020 08:12 AM IST Many contemporary Chinese writers have offered us a window into the country’s lived reality. Among them is novelist Yu Hua whose work, from early avantgarde to grotesque realism, critiques China’s development from the Cultural Revolution to its modern-day variety of hyper-capitalism.
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June 17, 2020 01:42 PM IST The India-China history is steeped in deep distrust and periodic bursts of friction and as it happens in matters as these, details can often be scarce. Below are five important books that can help you catch up on the conflict and make sense of the tumultuous relationship between the two countries.
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May 23, 2020 07:49 AM IST Reading at whim will make you stumble across books you really like, which will lead you to more books, which will lead to yet more.
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April 30, 2020 11:24 AM IST Though Dutta never generalises about her interviewees, in some cases the common motifs in their lives jump out.
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April 29, 2020 06:35 PM IST As a senior journalist, author Pavan C. Lall is doubtlessly good at writing in a hurry while also keeping up standards of excellence in writing, and it shows.
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April 29, 2020 05:47 PM IST 'In Facebook: The Inside Story', Levy turns his massively insightful gaze to the trajectory of Facebook from its birth, its dizzying growth, and its embattled present, when its reputation is extensively scarred.
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February 20, 2020 07:49 PM IST Banerjee and Duflo, along with fellow economist Michael Kremer, brought an experimental approach to economics to focus on poverty, and in particular, how the poor make decisions. This approach,while popular in medical research, is a pioneering effort on part of the Nobel prize winners to use randomized control trials in economic studies.
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January 09, 2017 04:14 PM IST In an interview with CNBC-TV18, Nitin Patel, ED of Sadbhav Engineering said that demonetisation has impacted three of their projects where revenue decline has been in double digits.
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August 11, 2016 10:44 AM IST The Ocean of the Churn by Sanjeev Sanyal discusses an urgent need to revisit the history of a vastly complex and populous region, the Indian ocean region.
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July 20, 2016 07:58 AM IST Commenting on the development, DEN Networks Chairman and MD Sameer Manchanda said, "Under his able leadership, Den will scale greater heights in times to come. Den's cable TV partners and associates are all geared up to work in perfect coordination to adopt new systems and technologies for better monetisation of investments."
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April 28, 2016 12:42 PM IST It will be a joint mission by SICCI and the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) as a follow up to a number of successful Singapore ventures in India in June, including the master plan of Andhra Pradesh's new capital city of Amaravati.
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June 10, 2015 08:23 PM IST According to Ram Mohan, the inability to harness employee talent, outsized executive pay, and ineffective boards have become all too pervasive today and threaten the very existence of companies
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January 28, 2015 07:00 PM IST Thanks to fall in international commodity prices, inflation has come down in Indian economy. However more steps are required in this direction.