BOOKS & IDEAS

Gandhi in Tamil Nadu: A researcher’s tribute

Gandhi`s Travels in Tamil Nadu. By A. Ramasamy, Translated from the original Tamil by P. C. Ramakrishna. Orient BlackSwan, 688

An intimate, inspiring portrait of First Citizen

Droupadi Murmu: From Tribal Hinterlands to Raisina Hill By Kasturi Ray Rupa, 256 pages, Rs 595

When Coomar Narain, a PA-turned-spy, created havoc in South Block

Centres of Power: My Years in the Prime Minister’s Office and Security Council By Chinmaya R. Gharekhan Rupa, 336 pages, Rs 795  

Homi Bhabha: New biography presents the human side of a towering genius

Homi J. Bhabha: A Life By Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy Rupa, 776 pages, Rs 995

Gandhi’s Triumph over the Fear of Death

The Essential U. R. Ananthamurthy Edited by N. Manu Chakravarthy and Chandan Gowda Aleph Books, Rs 899, 312 pages

Rama beyond Ramayana: Stories from other sources

Untold Stories of Ramayana By Gaurang Damani 194 pages, Rs 300

How Kasturba saw the Gandhi story

ReFocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal Edited by Sneha Kar Chaudhuri and Ramit Samaddar Orient BlackSwan, 272 pages, Rs 1050 Shyam Benegal, a trailblazing auteur who successfully redefined the co

What it means to be a citizen

Where the Madness Lies: Citizen Accounts of Identity and Nationalism By Kishalay Bhattacharjee Orient BlackSwan, 304 pages, Rs 950, The idea of citizenship today conveys a static dullness, a c

Why climate change is everyone’s business

MADE IN INDIA: 75 Years of Business and Enterprise By Amitabh Kant Rupa, 240 pages Rs 595 Seventy-five years after India attained freedom at the stroke of the midnight hour, the Indian econom

Can you bank upon a banker in these days of cybercrime?

Cyber Encounters: Cops` Adventures with Online Criminals By Ashok Kumar, O.P. Manocha Penguin/Ebury Press, 256 pages, Rs 299

Ethics in the civil services: A primordial necessity

Transforming the Steel Frame: Promise and Paradox of Civil Service Reform Edited by Vinod Rai Rupa, 256 pages, Rs 595  

How to read Ambedkar’s “Annihilation of Caste”

UNDERSTANDING B.R. AMBEDKAR’S “ANNIHILATION OF CASTE” By Sayed Sayeed Permanent Black, 252 pages, Rs 595.00 A just-released work on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar`s well-known text,

‘My Father Was a Simple Man’: Remembering Gen. Rawat

Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform By Rachna Bisht Rawat Penguin, 207 pages, Rs 599

A Mind and Heart without Corners

In Love, At Ease: Everyday Spirituality with Pramukh Swami By Yogi Trivedi Penguin Random House, 360 pages, Rs 499

Women’s Day Reading, for men and women: On helping around at home

My Subconsciously Feminist Father By Yashika Singla Aleph Book Company, 176 pages, Rs 499   My Subconsciously Feminist Father imagines a world where parents, especially fathers, y

Women’s Day Reading: “You are like a son to me”

Lies Our Mother Told Us: The Indian Woman’s Burden By Nilanjana Bhowmick Aleph Book Company / 272 pages / Rs 699

A must-read guide simplifies the five S’s of money

The Bee, The Beetle and The Money Bug: The Bankbazaar Guide to the Financial World By Adhil Shetty with A.R. Hemant Rupa, 272 pages, Rs 395

Should India look for another capital?

The Indian Metropolis: Deconstructing India’s Urban Spaces By Feroze Varun Gandhi Rupa, 840 pages, Rs 1,500 Feroze Varun Gandhi, a Member of Parliament from the BJP, has been a published

Making sense of the ‘crisis of political representation’

Imprints of the Populist Time By Ranabir Samaddar Orient BlackSwan, 352 pages, Rs. 1105 The crisis of liberal

A sacred offering of the beauty of ‘Saundarya Lahari’ – in English

Saundarya Lahari: Wave of Beauty Translated from the Sanskrit by Mani Rao HarperCollins, 218 pages, Rs 399 ‘Saundarya Lahari’, usually ascribed to Adi Shankaracharya, has a unique

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


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