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A financial alchemist's roller-coaster story
Mr Hands describes some of his early deals, which reflect the essence of his approach
Against the grain: Technology and us
The book argues that about five years ago, the average user would tap their phone 2,617 times a day and the top 10 per cent would do 5,427 taps per 132 different sessions per day
Should B-schools add a sociological perspective?
The author, currently a professor at an IIM, rightly turns his introspective gaze on these types of questions
Combating civil wars
Ms Walter has a political scientist's fondness for data sets and numerical scales
Living with the gods
This book fills a gap in popular knowledge about temples and their architecture, which is tucked away in obscure texts or left to the imagination of tour guides
Unmasking India's Covid response
This is a tough book to process, especially if getting through the day is hard enough and leaves you with little energy to learn about how others have suffered and continue to suffer
AMU and intellectual imagination
The author tries to present the AMU story in the context of the mind of Muslims in India
Deep data dive, shallow approach
The book appears to be a compendium of articles written for various publications over the years with more structure and better prose
Kerala Literature Festival postponed to March 17 amid rising Covid cases
The four-day literary extravaganza, touted as the "second largest festival" of its kind in Asia, aims to map literature through discussions on several aspects shaping human consciousness
Passage to the past
The irascible Hans likes to stick to the facts, but even those spare details reveal a bleak story, heightened by the gentle humour and empathy with which the son tells it
V P Singh's half revolution
Through this book, you get glimpses of an India you think is left far behind
The defence rests
It's a pity that Justice Gogoi doesn't discuss the process by which collective decisions are arrived at in the judiciary as a whole
Why India is a tech laggard
The author attempts to figure out the underlying reasons for this reluctance to adopt the right technology at the right moment
The man-god dynamic
Accidental Gods meanders at times, delineating some connections that are less plausible than others
The business of saving the earth
Net Positive is a concept that entails the corporation putting back more into the environment and society than it takes out
Battered by Brexit
Considering that there has been little serious debate on Brexit in India this book is to be welcomed
Ruminations of a globalist
The book is divided into 10 chapters (including the conclusion) to illustrate stories of migration and the author's personal experiences
Healing from loss
This book articulates some of the concerns that torment people when their loved ones die
Sanitising at our peril
In A Natural History of the Future, the ecologist Rob Dunn sketches an arresting vision of this relentless natural world that is in equal measures creative, unguided and extravagant
Bengal's degrees of separation
West Bengal, as it became after independence, lost more
