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Ex-NYT executive editor Abramson's book charts journalism's stormy seas

The book tells the story in 13 chapters, three on each protagonist-company and one on Facebook

Imperial frontiers and conquests

The author's description of the Portuguese challenge to Akbar, Jahangir and Shahjahan in Bengal is particularly informative

India's Beat Generation

While interest in the poets has certainly piqued in recent years readers will be left with more questions than answers after reading the book.

The spectre of BJP

Though Ghose pegs the book to the present government, blamed for an increase in illiberalism, let's focus on that core liberal agenda

Creating the calm corporation

By making the right choices, it is possible to build a company that is perhaps less ambitious, but is profitable, gentler on its employees, and true to its customers

The art of tech poaching

Ms Zuboff can get overheated with her metaphors; an extended passage with tech executives as Spanish conquistadors and the rest of us as indigenous peoples is frankly ridiculous

The British in India: Gilmour's book typifies revisionist history writing

Gilmour reconstructs the lives of the Britons in India with loving detail but one misses the distance that separated the rulers from the ruled

How paradise was lost

Radha Kumar's accounts convey the deep sense of loss of dignity and respect among a people subjected daily to demeaning encounters with security forces. This has to change for any progress to be made

Travels and travails on the LoC

This book is, ultimately, a useful and interesting read for students of India-Pakistan relations

The truths out there

The one thing you begin to notice in this book is that propagating a reflexive scepticism and sowing discord aren't terribly difficult, especially when there's a vested interest willing to pay for it

A new book challenges the link between ancient Indian society and the Vedas

Read it and follow up on the citations if you want to learn more about yourself and your ancestors

Inside the sorting hat of stories

The author includes many folk myths in her collection and considers these a symbol of the reciprocal traditions of storytelling in the region

India's tryst with free enterprise

Merchants from the north or south of India looked up to the state for mainly one role and that was the provision of political security

An American journey

"Becoming" is refined and forthright, gracefully written and at times laugh-out-loud funny, with a humbler tone

'Stillborn Season' depicts a world bound by compassion in face of tragedy

Despite some shortcomings, its invocation of empathy in the face of tragedy upon tragedy is Stillborn Season's triumph

Muhammad Ali in the details

Muhammad Ali was conscious about leaving behind a rich legacy and he hoarded memories.

A conundrum called "Britishness"

This book is part of a new "ethnic noir" genre in publishing and follows a spate of memoirs by prominent Asians and Afro-Caribbeans

Between god and state

The author devotes considerable space examining religious organisations engaged in providing public services

Creating the US Supreme Court

Life of Marshall reminds us of the urgent importance of Roberts's efforts to persuade his colleagues to unite around a shared commitment to defending legitimacy of SC by rising above partisan politics

GenNext in Indian politics

In her profiles of Rahul Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ms Sahgal refuses to engage with the question of why these leaders' constituencies, Amethi and Guna respectively, continue to be backward