Book Reviews
The Serpent's Tale: A book on Kundalini Yoga's texts and institutions
In its original avatar, Kundalini was a mind-and-body experience that could be achieved under the trained guidance of an expert
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Letter from Japan: A gentle, well-sourced plea for global domestic life
Yet Ms Kondo's book arrives into a different conversation than the one she helped start a decade ago
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Uprooted shows how India's forest keepers became its most haunted outsiders
Ita Mehrotra's Uprooted, through evocative prose and stunning black-and-white illustrations capturing years of fieldwork, narrates the displacement of Van Gujjar and Taungya communities
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Breakneck: Why China needs to learn to build less and America to build more
Wang is a Canadian citizen who migrated from China at a young age with his parents, and later went on to work in the Silicon Valley
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Coffee King: Book on CCD weaves cautionary tale for investors, regulators
In uncovering how CCD was run as a one-man show, this book weaves a cautionary tale for investors, regulators, consumers, and even fellow journalists
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Beneath the pink glitter, Barbie is a tale of theft and ruthlessness
Barbieland is a book written from outside Barbieland's high-security gates; we meet Hitt - an editor and contributor with The Drift magazine
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The Eleventh Hour review: Salman Rushdie's meditations on mortality
Salman Rushdie's latest work blends fiction, memory, myth, and mortality, offering a deeply personal meditation shaped by near-death, nostalgia, and literary playfulness
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Power, crime, survival: The women who define Mafia Queens of India
The book opens with Mr Zaidi's journey to meet a mysterious figure who people call Akka, once a key aide to one of Mumbai's mob bosses Varadarajan Mudaliar
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Between being and nothingness: Yiyun Li picks acceptance as a way of living
Yiyun Li is an award-winning Chinese-American author with multiple novels and short story collections to her name
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Breaking the Engagement: US-China ties shift as power gap narrows
This book attempts to track contours of relationship against this backdrop. But the author cautions that it is principally a study of US foreign policy & the American side of the US-China relationship
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World of the Right: Book challenges idea of a sudden radical-right ascent
A new book unpacks the ideological ascent of nationalist movements and their shared transnational strategy
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A new book reviews the global history of how capitalism took over the world
Sven Beckert's sweeping global history reframes capitalism as a centuries-long, often violent world-making force - rich in detail, ambitious in scope, and certain to provoke debate
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More from Less for More: Can innovation bridge India's quality gap?
Mashelkar and Borde argue that true innovation doesn't cut corners or chase exclusivity. It expands access, raises quality and proves that efficiency and equity can coexist
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The Art of Spending Money: Housel warns against spending for status
People, says Mr Housel, rarely make grave spending mistakes when trying to meet basic needs. Misjudgments arise once they graduate to the realm of discretionary spending
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The Niche Code: Big power emerges when firms dominate niche spaces
In the race to build a big business, why companies must avoid doing everything moderately well
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Scamlands: From Cambodia to Jamtara, a deep dive into global fraud networks
A sharp, immersive look at phone fraud networks, their victims, and the hidden economies that keep them alive
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The Breath of the Gods: The polymath probes a force driving human history
Simon Winchester's The Breath of the Gods explores how wind has shaped exploration, disaster, innovation, and imagination, even as its future remains uncertain
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A History of Santiniketan: A university against national chauvinism
Uma Das Gupta's history of Santiniketan traces Tagore's educational vision, the making of Vishva-Bharati, and the challenges that shaped his alternative to nationalist orthodoxy
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Manoj Kumar Jha's book explains hope versus reality in coalition politics
A timely collection reflects on democratic ideals, coalition failures, federalism and the need for active citizenship as India debates the future of its political culture
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Climate action's new frontier: Circular economies and 15-min cities
The book he has written seeks to weave together the history of the climate movement over the past few decades and within those the role WRI has played in it
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