Breaking the mould: Reimagining India’s economic future
Raghuram Rajan & Rohit Lamba
Random House
Rs.799
Pages 366
This book contains an impressive array of aspects/data points to argue that India’s seemingly impressive economic growth has been very patchy
Raghuram Rajan, former Governor, RBI and former chief economic advisor to the Union government, needs no introduction to knowledgeable […]
H-Pop: the secretive world of Hindutva pop stars
Kunal Purohit
Harper Collins
Rs.499
Pages 306
This book draws us into the world of the modern propaganda machine that the Sangh Parivar has nearly perfected for the new Internet age
A silent, hidden campaign master-minded by Hindutva ideologues and conducted by social media entertainers could well prove a […]
The Viceroy’s Artist
Anindyo Roy
hachette india
Rs.599
Pages 284
A 19th century travelogue across India of Edward Lear, a nonsense- verse writer and sketches painter, is pieced together by academic-turned- novelist Anindyo Roy
Who is the Viceroy and who is his artist is played out over 284 pages of this historically contextualised tour de force fictionalised […]
Smoke and Ashes
Amitav Ghosh
harper collins
Rs.699
Pages 318
The unwritten history of how the British forcibly grew opium over vast swathes of the Gangetic plain and dumped it on a weak imperial China
Environment and climate warrior and author of the Ibis trilogy of novels centred around the history of the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, […]
ONE WAY TO LOVE ; LOVING YOU TWICE; THREE TIMES LUCKY (Jasmine Villa Series)
Andaleeb Wajid
westland publications
Rs.399
Pages 276; 296 & 290
Romance stories written by Muslim women published in women’s magazines enjoy phenomenal popularity among Urdu readers
Andaleeb Wajid, a young Bangalore-based, hijab-wearing woman, who has written over 40 novels in genres ranging from […]
The Indian village: Rural lives in the 21st century
Surinder S. Jodhka
Aleph Book Company
Rs.799
Pages 279
This book details the relationship between land reforms, green revolution, rising agricultural production and the emergence of marginalised people
India’s 600,000 villages represent a vast terrain, full of diversity in natural settings, social structure, cultural life, economic conditions, and […]
The commissioner of lost causes
Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Shobita Punja, Toby Sinclair
Aleph Book Company
Rs.999
Pages 480
The story of the development of Indian civilisation and its march to modern nationhood told with elegance, precision and sensitivity
This is a textbook with a difference. It covers a well-known story of the development of India as a civilization, […]
The commissioner of lost causes
Arun Shourie
penguin random house
Rs.619
Pages 582
An account of the author’s tumultuous years as Editor of the Indian Express under its legendary publisher Ramnath Goenka
To citizens of a certain vintage who have outlived their prescribed lifespan of threescore and ten, and who remember the era before television and social […]
A Matter of the Heart: Education in India
Anurag Behar
westland books
Rs.599
Pages 375
A valuable narrative recounting stories of dedicated teachers transforming the lives of students in nondescript villages and far-flung sites
Anurag Behar has rich experience in the field of education by way of working with the Azim Premji Foundation and travelling extensively […]
memoirs of a maverick — the first fifty years (1941-91)
Mani Shankar Aiyar
Juggernaut
Rs.899
Pages 379
Autobiography of an effortlessly superior worthy who served in the IFS for 26 years prior to retiring and resurfacing with a new career in politics
There is an element of prankishness, reminiscent of the classic Tom Brown’s School Days […]
Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary
Gita Ramaswamy
Navayana
Rs.454
Pages 432
Memoirs of Indian revolutionaries are few and far between. This book relates to revolutionary struggles in the post-independence period
Memoirs of Indian revolutionaries are few and far between. Those relating to revolutionary struggles in the post-independence period are nearly absent. In […]
HELP ME WITH THIS TRICKY CASE: STORIES
C.N. Annadurai (Translated from the original Tamil by Ramakrishnan V.)
bloomsbury
Rs.599
Pages 224
CN Annadurai, the first chief minister of Tamil Nadu after it was renamed, was also a literary giant with a prodigious output
CN Annadurai (1909-1969), popularly known as ‘Anna’ (elder brother), is one of Tamil Nadu’s […]
Colonialism: a moral reckoning
Nigel Biggar
william collins
Rs.899
Pages 480
In an unabashed defence of British colonialism, the author has waded into familiar debates in a rather superficial manner
In attempting to defend the empire Nigel Biggar, Director and Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral & Pastoral Theology at Oxford University, has waded into several familiar debates […]
If there is a god
Imayam (Translated from the original Tamil by Prabha Sridevan)
Ratan Books
Rs.499 Pages 224
This book is a collection of ten short stories that capture the lives of ordinary people governed by the larger structures of class, caste and gender
I would have been a loser in not knowing Mr. Imayam,’ stated […]
The Mahabharata quest: the Khandavaprastha conspiracy
Christopher C. Doyle
Westland
Rs.499 391 pages
This fast-paced thriller blends mythology, science fiction and historical facts so smoothly that the reader feels this is a factual account with an air of verisimilitude
Creating fiction, poetry and drama based on the Mahabharata, Ramayana or the Puranas is a well-established tradition […]
Ambedkar: A Life
Shashi Tharoor
Aleph Book Company
Rs.599
Pages 226
This book is about the confrontation between Gandhi and Ambedkar, a profound disagreement on the status of Dalits in free, independent India
India’s uniquely successful freedom movement in last few decades of British Raj over the subcontinent was almost entirely due to the generalship and masterful […]
India’s undeclared emergency: Constitutionalism & the Politics of Resistance
Arvind Narrain
Westland publications
Rs.699, Pages 235
The merry month of May was significant for coronations in Britain, our erstwhile colonial master nation, and in its crown jewel, India. On May 6, King Charles III, a long-time prince in waiting, was crowned King of England and Head […]
Citizenship regimes, law & belonging: the CAA & the NRC
Anupama Roy
Oxford university press
Rs.1,495 Pages 270
The power of the State to determine membership of political communities and people’s power to challenge the State are discussed
In Citizenship Regimes, Law, and Belonging: The CAA and the NRC, Anupama Roy examines the form and content of […]
India’s tipping point
S. Narendra
Bloomsbury India
Rs.699 Pages 212
In this biography, the author details how prime minister Narasimha Rao unshackled the Indian economy by stealth
During the past 76 years since India wrested freedom from almost 200 years of British rule, P.V. Narasimha Rao (PVNR, 1921-2004) was undoubtedly the greatest of India’s 14 prime ministers. […]
Victory City
Salman Rushdie
Alfred A Knopf
Rs.519 Pages 352
An engaging novel about the founding and ultimate fate of the Vijayanagar empire (called Bisnaga) after a European mispronounces it
On August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was due to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State. Shortly after the speakers ascended the stage, a […]
Parenting in the age of anxiety: raising children in india in the 21st century
Abha Adams
Aleph book company
Rs.399 Pages 224
Well-known K-12 educator Abha Adams discusses the challenges and choices parents face, and must make, while raising children in these fractious times
Abha Adams’ reputation as India’s pre-eminent educationist precedes her, and for good […]
The Anatomy of Hate
Revati Laul
Westland Books
Rs.1,499 Pages 220
The author has chosen to study three individuals who swiftly meld into mobs, to understand the circumstances and motivations that make them ready tools of politicians and revivalists
In recent years, there has been an increasing tendency of enraged vigilante groups running amok, creating havoc and […]
The Digital Ape: how to live (in peace) with smart machines
Nigel Shadbolt & Roger Hampson
Manjul Publishing House
Rs.354 Pages 90
We are reassuringly told that AI actually is poor at “commonsense reasoning”, and while they are superhuman in completing certain tasks, they are “overall bad at generalising”
At the heart of The Digital Ape: […]
I could not be Hindu: The story of a Dalit in the RSS
Bhanwar Meghwanshi
Navayana Publishing
Rs.399 Pages 240
The author shares his experience with the RSS and the reasons why he quit this organisation, the ideological mentor of the BJP, which rules at the Centre
This is an autobiography in which the author shares his […]
India’s china war
Neville Maxwell
Natraj Publishing
Rs.595 Pages 510
This book first published in 1970 was banned in India by Indira Gandhi and the dynasty for 40 years. An updated version was reprinted in 2015
Although liberals put up a stout defence, no politician’s star has fallen from the zenith of his glory to near rock-bottom […]
POLITICS, ETHICS AND THE SELF: RE-READING GANDHI’S HIND SWARAJ
Rajeev Bhargava
Routledge
Rs.1,595 Pages 370
The views of several pundits and distinguished scholars are included in this compendium which revisits Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj
Hind Swaraj is one of those key texts published in the 20th century, which on the one hand, was denounced by many critics, […]
Gautam adani: reimagining business in india & the world
R.N. Bhaskar
PENGUIN
Rs.699 Pages 311
One hopes that this biography will persuade the citizenry into believing that 21st century India needs 1,000×2 As (Ambani & Adani) to fulfill its full potential
This is a timely, well-researched and engagingly written biography on this eponymous business tycoon who since […]
Caste discrimination and exclusion in Indian universities: A Critical Reflection
N. Sukumar
Routledge
Rs.12,600 Pages 215
With comprehensive ethnographic research, Sukumar details how caste continues to shape the functioning of India’s universities
Knowledge, at least in its a priori form, promises to be liberating. The thought of being able to learn, question, unlearn and then relearn […]
Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal
Kishan S. Rana
ROUTLEDGE
Rs.995
Pages 192
The author discerns four distinct phases in Churchill’s association with India between 1896 and 1965, when he was given a state funeral in London
While the title of his book Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal? is puzzling (in that the alternatives seem to […]
Economist Gandhi: The Roots & the relevance of the political economy of the Mahatma Jaithirth Rao
PENGUIN PORTFOLIO
Rs.599 Pages 256
The centrepiece of the book is a radical re-evaluation of the crucial concept of trusteeship, which according to Rao contests the conventional view that Gandhi was opposed to capitalism
MAHATMA Gandhi is possibly the greatest and […]
SMALLER CITIZENS: WRITINGS ON THE MAKING OF INDIAN CITIZENS
Krishna Kumar
ORIENT BLACKSWAN
Rs.395 Pages 149
The author’s insights help to locate the child within socio-political complexities while understanding education in India and its intersection with citizenship
KRISHNA Kumar’s deep and critical engagement with education and its impact on the child is clearly reflected in this slim […]
In this book published by the Malala Fund established by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, girl children who have struggled to acquire education write first-hand accounts
WHENEVER I imagine war, images of the aftermath come to mind. Everything is scattered and I can see only people and things that have somehow survived bombings. I can feel the […]
RENOWNED mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik has selected 72 tales, mainly from India’s rich mythology, and used them as a canvas on which to paint the 21st century.
THE STORIES WE TELL: MYTHOLOGY TO MAKE SENSE OF MODERN LIVES
Devdutt Pattanaik
ALEPH BOOK COMPANY
Rs.499 Pages 199
This collection of engaging anecdotes originates from Pattanaik’s webcast Teatime Tales. Why […]
THEY FOUND WHAT? STORIES OF DARING DISCOVERIES BY INDIAN SCIENTISTS
THEY MADE WHAT? STORIES OF INGENIOUS INVENTIONS BY INDIAN SCIENTISTS
Shweta Taneja; HACHETTE INDIA; Rs.399; 288 pp
HERE’S A welcome addition to popular-science writing for children in India. Shweta Taneja, the author, is passionate about familiarising children with the wonders of modern science and scientists, and has been […]
HIMALAYAN CHALLENGE: INDIA, CHINA AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE
Subramanian Swamy
RUPA
Rs.595 Pages 240
WITH THE just concluded 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) making global headlines, this is a good time to review Subramanian Swamy’s slim but informative book which suggests ways and means to mend Sino-India ties, slowly but […]
Tagore’s first experience of village life and close observation of the glaring poverty of the peasantry planted the seed of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Nabanipa Bhattarcharjee (The Book Review)
A HISTORY OF SRINIKETAN: RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S PIONEERING WORK IN RURAL RECONSTRUCTION
Uma Das Gupta
NIYOGI BOOKS
Rs.450 Pages 234
BORN INTO a wealthy family in Calcutta in […]
A biography of John Lang, writer, lawyer and alcoholic who exposed British epicures who ruled India for almost 200 years, writes Mridula Garg
JOHN LANG: WANDERER OF HINDOOSTAN, SLANDERER IN HINDOOSTANEE, LAWYER FOR THE RANEE
Amit Ranjan
NIYOGI BOOKS
Rs.795; Pages 472
Amit Ranjan’s book John Lang poses a conundrum quite like the persona of the protagonist. […]
In-depth research and scholarship have made this book a fascinating account of the role of intelligence services in China during the turbulent past century, writes Parimal Maya Sudhakar
Chinese Spies: From chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
Roger Faligot
Harper Collins
Rs.699
616 pages
The rise of a nation in international politics is measured by its hard and […]
In this fascinating book the author unravels the mysterious ways in which viruses orchestrate the cycle of life on Planet Earth, writes Anil Thakore
Invisible empire: The natural history of viruses
Pranay Lal
Penguin Random House
Rs.799
Pages 278
In January 2020, news emerged of a mysterious fever in China. Until it was identified as the […]
The first Indian language translation novel awarded the Booker Prize (2022) is notable for its sweeping imagination and power of language, writes Alka Saraogi
Tomb of Sand (Ret Samadhi)
Geetanjali Shree
Rajkamal Prakashan
Rs.299
376 pp
The first Indian language translation to be awarded the Booker Prize 2022 and the fifth novel of Geetanjali Shree leaves […]
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