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The PayPal mafia

The gist of the PayPal history is known to those who follow Silicon Valley history

Power, upfront and personal

It is hard to summarise the riches in the book and the layers of insight into India's society, economy and politics

Liberty in subservience

This debut book by Rohan J Alva traces the history of the present Article 21 of the Constitution of India, and the spirited debates that went around it.

Reporting and truth-telling

It would be hard to overstate the collective power and visibility of these reporters in their heyday

'The best words in the best order'

Assembled in five sections, Ms Deshpande's perspectives touch upon an array of subjects

A safari with Davos Man

With frequent references to private jets, yachts and oceanfront mansions, Mr Goodman's book runs the risk of descending into a lefty screed.

India's privatisation in monochrome

The book presents a detailed chronological timeline of privatisation in the country

The other Ukraine crisis

Yovanovitch was the child of immigrants who had fled the Soviets and the Nazis

The magnificent seven

Ramachandra Guha's work on westerners who devoted themselves to the cause of Indian freedom lives up to the high standards set by his earlier books

Tale of a city, warts and all

The hospital is your best tourism option for efficiency, tourist trappings be damned

Digital medium and messaging

The book's voice carries immense worth given the pedigree of one of its co-authors

Dealing with deadlines

According to Mr Cox, "as soon as you set a deadline, work tends to get delayed until right before time expires". He calls this a "deadline effect".

Dimensions of leadership

The subject of leadership permits opposite conclusions to be drawn from the same observations and data

Truman: The everyman president

Mr Frank does not so much puncture the Truman myth as let out just enough air to settle the man back to earth

The Mahabharata and us

G N Devy has produced incisive commentary on what it means to be the inheritors of this vibrant, timeless text

Hinduism decoded

In the last many years, Mr Debroy has translated several Hindu epics into simple English prose, even though they were originally written in narrative couplets

How to succeed

The authors, two blood brothers six years apart, are alumni of IIT

The 'Gray War' combat zone

The book's thesis is broad. Cyberwar can target both the soft and hard "layers" of the Internet and leverage them separately, or together

Mind your brand language

Throughout, Mr West strengthens his observations by referring to diverse sources - from Locke and Hobbes to Aristotle to Orwell

Good Trump, bad Trump

The heart of One Damn Thing After Another concerns the earlier days of Trump's presidency when, apparently, "country and principle" took first place