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Manish Chand's India's G20 Legacy: A collection of diplomatic insights
The book is worth reading to understand India's enduring contribution to the G20, even though the contributions sometimes may be overlapping and repetitive
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An unsentimental view of India's capabilities and security challenges
Talmiz Raza's books, 'Essays on Military Affairs' does a great public service by putting together some of his most important articles in a compact publication
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Digging with teeth: This book does some historical detective work
An Incisive History of Teeth, From Hagfish to Humans', Bill Schutt seeks to trace not just the history of individual creatures, but of all animal life on Earth, based entirely on teeth
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Book review: Vikram Seth uses tech to enhance rhythm in Hanuman Chalisa
The short poem, running into just about 100 pages, has been translated with a lot of care and sensitivity keeping in mind what should make the poem more accessible to the readers
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This Salman Khan book shows how AI can transform education systems globally
'Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)', by Khan Academy founder, is a valuable read for those puzzling over AI's role in education and society at large
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India's China conflict and a JP angle in championing the 'Free Tibet' cause
In 'Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy', Sulmaan Wasif Khan writes about China's occupation of Tibet in 1950 and its attempts at assimilating an unfamiliar territory peopled by a strange mix of ethnicities
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This book tells you about millennials' attitudes towards nearly everything
A M Gautam's 'Indian Millennials: Who Are They, Really?' deconstructs millennials by studying their behaviours towards body, food, culture, religion, spirituality, ideology, technology, and internet
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Book Review: Some lessons in fighting brand crises from the marketplace
In their book 'Managing Brand Transgressions: 8 Principles to Transform Your Brand', S P Jain and S S Jain attempt to draw the right lessons that are to be learnt from brand challenges
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'Who were the Nazis?': This book asks key questions about men behind Hitler
Richard J Evans' 'Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich' is being justifiably lauded for its elegance and scope
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Between Nakba and Shoah
'Israel has become its own ghetto, where Jews are less safe than Diaspora Jews,' says Kai Bird in his thought-provoking new memoir that leaves readers with much to think about
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Just another brick in the wall
Through the eyes of Syeda, journalist Neha Dixit traces India's story, particularly Delhi's, over the last three decades-covering hot-button issues like gau rakshaks, corruption, CAA, and more
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The contours of displacement
A collection of essays intricately weaves the stories of a Kashmiri family and their exodus from the Valley
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Nate Silver's odds for the future
Risk-takers will dominate our casino-like economy, but most are destined to lose, argues statistician and election modeller Nate Silver in his new book
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The Raj and Hajj management
This is an outstanding contribution to a complex and under-researched aspect of imperialist rule as it was shaped in a specific area of colonial hegemony
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Mixed feelings about identity
In Both, Not Half explores the diverse facets of mixed identity, going beyond individual experiences
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The Indo-Japanese imperative
Packed with compelling anecdotes, data, and insights, Rajaram Panda's book is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the strengths and weaknesses of Indo-Japanese relations
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The rights of the Nicobar forests
A collection of essays is a timely attempt at ringing alarm bells over the proposed project port project in the ecologically fragile Galathea Bay of Nicobar island
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Anatomy of a massacre
The Damascus Events is a fascinating narrative of the interplay between geopolitical, social, economic, and technological transformations that culminated in two catastrophic wars of the 20th century
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How the alt-right became mainstream
Reeve's reporting begins around 2013, but the internet culture she depicts starts at least a decade earlier
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The 'compassion' revolution
Two Nobel laureates present a compelling case for compassion, highlighting its benefits for health, well-being, and longevity
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