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Book review: Ascetic Games busts myth around Kumbh's camera-friendly sadhus
Sadhu politics can be like Indian party politics: always dependent on rent-a-crowd
 "Book review: Ascetic Games busts myth around Kumbh's camera-friendly sadhus")
Governance and power
Challenges of Governance is a treat to read with a lot in it for public policy practitioners, policy makers and thinkers.
 "Governance and power")
Rebuilding the reform consensus
Puja Mehra's The Lost Decade chronicles the policy choices that provide a coherent explanation of some of the puzzles that concern us the most at present
 "Rebuilding the reform consensus")
Generic corruption
Book review of Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
 "Generic corruption")
Ayn Rand's topsy-turvy legacy
Book review of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
 "Ayn Rand's topsy-turvy legacy")
Book review: A dozen problems with the economy and about as many solutions
By far the best chapter in the book is "Fixing Schools" by Karthik Muralidharan
 "Book review: A dozen problems with the economy and about as many solutions")
Dissecting Hindu nationalism
The book successfully demonstrates how the unprecedented electoral verdict of 2014 has played out in creating a majoritarian narrative
 "Dissecting Hindu nationalism")
Animal Intimacies offers sparkling exploration of animal-human relationship
For the lucidity of the prose and the animal/human characters alone, this book is a reader's delight
 "Animal Intimacies offers sparkling exploration of animal-human relationship")
Earth's demographic myth
What is startling about their conclusions are the imminent population declines in the developing world.
 "Earth's demographic myth")
Stiglitz's prescriptions
In his book, he argues that the American system of capitalism has fallen down and needs government help to get back up again
 "Stiglitz's prescriptions")
AI's dystopian future
Both authors go well beyond such cautionary tales and have specific (though different) suggested plans of action to deal with this frightening future
 "AI's dystopian future")
Managing the Hydra
Had the book not been technically adequate, one could have said that the authors have tried to bite off more than they can chew
 "Managing the Hydra")
Testing cultural boundaries
Ms Gokhale speaks of the clothing quite like her reworking of Hamlet: It is as much her own as it is Shakespeare's; she has every right to re-write it from her own perspective
 "Testing cultural boundaries")
Paradoxes of progress
Review of the book - War or Peace: The Struggle For World Power
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Contestations over statism
This book is an assessment of the evolution of India's political parties since independence
 "Contestations over statism")
A problem called Israel
The heart of The Lions' Den is a series of individual portraits of iconic, midcentury left-wing thinkers who wrote extensively on the idea and reality of Jewish statehood
 "A problem called Israel")
Mother Teresa or Dr Faustus?
Mr Gupta says his fateful September call to Mr Rajratnam, which was in a gap in a busy schedule, was about the money he was owed. Why would he tip off someone with whom he had an ongoing dispute?
 "Mother Teresa or Dr Faustus?")
Decoding Tamil Nadu
With this book, Dr Venkatachalapathy has sought to make the state more accessible to outsiders who may be intrigued by the state, its politics, its culture and art
 "Decoding Tamil Nadu")
Corporate titans and their feet of clay
The strategic course a CEO adopts could prove to be the right one in the long run. But boards have limited patience. If results are not forthcoming in the short to medium term, they sack the CEO
 "Corporate titans and their feet of clay")
Unravelling the Putin enigma
The book's usefulness is marred by maddening small errors
 "Unravelling the Putin enigma")
