Page 23 - Book Review

RSS at the crossroads

From Mr Narayanan's book, RSS appears to be searching for answers, and is keen to change

Gay pride in India Inc

This business book is not a yawn-inducing volume stuffed with facts and figures alone

Western delusions

Mr Mishra points out that western liberal intellectuals are now sensing a serious challenge to the West-led world order, defined by democracy, free markets and globalisation

Hands across the border

Suketu Mehta makes a passionate case for the immigrant's right to free movement

Society, science & technology

This is a slim book but it requires your full engagement to understand the questions and nuances raised by each example

America's right turn

One of Perlstein's favourite sports is to poke fun at the cluelessness of establishment commentators from the mainstream media

Signals from Shaheen Bagh: Not all battles are fought in electoral arena

The Shaheen Bagh protest lasted 101 days, inspired many similar protests across India, and drew parallels with the Khilafat movement of a century back

Genders without borders

This book is packed with information about political developments in different continents and nuggets from queer scholarship

Paradise discovered

Yunnan province was first off the mark in "rediscovering" Shangri-la in its own Tibetan borderlands

The flawed and the unforgettable

Perhaps the book that has disturbed me the most among the lot that I've read during the pandemic-induced lockdown has been Tara Westover's memoir Educated

Order in the time of disorder

Ms Kondo quotes studies that prove that messy workplaces are bad for health as well as business

Migration, survival and politics

There is a biological imperative to move when the environment turns hostile

Coping with uncertainty

Although the world is grappling with numerous uncertainties, here's one worth pondering

'Write a paper, see the world'

Mr Lodges' satire on modern-day campus life is far removed from the popular vision of academia as a world of cerebral heavy-weights locked in their ivory towers in a single-minded pursuit of knowledge

The culture of gender violence

Ms Kaushal's journey into the homes of these men reveals disturbing realities and, ironically, ends up humanising them

Hiroshima: Fallout and cover up

Fallout is a book of serious intent

The spy who loved humanity

A new biography of Klaus Fuchs, the celebrated physicist who passed nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, forces readers to rethink their idea of what constitutes treason

The eye of the beholder

In a pandemic-stricken world that heightens the awareness of impermanence and uncertainty, love might be one of the few remaining frameworks to make meaning and find purpose

Normalising totalitarianism

The political context of China that follows the publication of this book is interesting

Too much misinformation

Bad News is a meticulously-researched discourse on the state of the news, and the psychological impulses that determine how we consume it