Page 58 - Book Review
Business & palace intrigues in Nepal
Binod Chaudhary's Making It Big lifts the veil over how business was done in Nepal when it was a monarchy
South America's drug-fuelled holocaust
Gangster Warlords is Mr Grillo's second book, coming five years after El Narco, in which he analysed Mexican drug cartels
A people's history of the Cultural Revolution
Frank Dikotter's The Cultural Revolution, the third volume of his work on the Mao years, challenges the Chinese people to address those missing years
Yann Martel in Pi's shadow
Yann Martel's The High Mountains of Portugal forces you to think deeply about love, loss, faith, suffering and pain
The realities of realty
Sushil Kumar Sayal's account of the rampant corruption and irregularities in real estate extends to discussing the hush-hush nexus between some builders and bureaucrats
Lost opportunities in Indonesian ties
The book Masala Bumbu, ably edited by ambassador Gurjit Singh was published in 2015, coinciding with the "Sahabat India Festival of India in Indonesia" held that year
Frenemies of the state
In Alter Egos, Mark Landler, who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times, comes down emphatically on the side of an interventionist Ms Clinton
A reader's Happy Place
Subsequent essays map the history of Indian writing in English and raise critical questions on the identity of the Indian writer
The crisis of the Left
Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya in his book Government as Practice seeks to provide a novel analytical tool to assess the experience
Up close & pedestrian
Memoirs of retired civil servants are usually an interesting read simply because they offer an insight into functional style of the govts with which they have been associated during their careers
Why governments evade the 'rich tax'
Authors Kenneth Scheve & David Stasavage find that there is little evidence to suggest that increasing inequality leads countries to adopt higher taxes on the rich
Debunking bad science
Ben Goldacre specifically targets pseudoscience, fallacies and woo and he does so with a trademark blend of logic, wit, snark and sarcasm that mocks bad science
Senior moments for baby boomers
Michael Kinsley's Old Age is attractively designed and just the right size to slip into one's pocket or purse
Reporting from the frontlines
Shyam Bhatia's Bullets and Bylines is a tribute to all those journalists who risk their lives for the sake of telling the story just as it happened
Defending the founding fathers
Rajmohan Gandhi takes his arguments forward. His quarrel this time is with two equally fascinating characters - Swami Sachidanand and Perry Anderson
Tips from the original start-up guy
Mr Case's book is filled with such insightful scenes that describe how the modern online industry was put together
Where age 50 is the new 65
Disrupted is born of Mr Lyons's attempt to cross over from covering tech to getting a piece of the action in the second, current Internet bubble
India-Japan: poised for a great leap forward
The Indo-Japanese relationship has followed a sinusoidal pattern since the 1950s. It saw its crests right after India's independence and after the Cold War
The IMF's big stumbles
In Failed, economist Mark Weisbrot chronicles the IMF's policy prescriptions during the Latin American, Asian and European crises
A penitent from Abu Ghraib
The abuses had roots in decisions made at the highest levels of the Bush administration, which asserted that the United States need not abide by the Geneva Conventions in its war on terror
