A book through music

Ambience: that feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing. For after all, what would nature be without the burnished copper of autumn?

Intimate histories

Seven years, 75 family members across five continents—all for a voluminous tell all 100-year-old family history spanning generations.

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Neglected dimensions of the Kashmir story get their space

Compared to the frequency at which Kashmir hit media headlines—there are very few good books on the subject and fewer address it with a fresh perspective. This is however not the case with other major conflicts such as Palestine, Ireland or Iraq or even Afghanistan.

Silent Valley

The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir, as the name indicates, is, on the one hand, a historical narrative of how America has not succeeded in exerting influence to resolve the Kashmir issue, and on the other, deriving from the narrative, a prescription for the Obama administration..

Blood to ink

Chetan Bhagat’s 2 States, or Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. For most bookstores, those are first preference for their show windows. Compared to the situation after 9/11, when a plethora of books on the subject dominated US bookstores, there has been remarkably little on 26/11.

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Despite governments banning the use of different forms of plastic, this ubiquitous facet of modern life has spawned a parallel economy.

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Shades of black

Exposing the dark underbellies of India’s leading metros, especially Delhi and Mumbai seems to be a favourite literary pastime for many.

“Depend more on mentor capital than VC”

Bootstrapping: Doing More With Less—the title of the book says it all. Sramana Mitra’s series, Entrepreneur Journeys, is about start-up entrepreneurs who begin their businesses with the little savings they have.

COLLECTOR OF MEMORIES

In Granta 68 Turkish writer and Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk recalls his grandmother’s gloomy living room in great detail: “…the cluttered rooms… smelled of dust and were filled with old worn wooden chests....

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Legend of a Suicide is set around a fatally- misconceived adventure deep in the wilderness of loss, survival and disillusioned love. It’s the story of Roy, a young boy whose...

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Dead end

After his trail-blazing The Great Railway Bazar, about his travels in the sub-continent and beyond, Paul Theroux’s India novels have been disappointing to say the least.

When loss isn’t less

Writer of 23 books. Part of the New Yorker for over three decades. A double BA and MA from Harvard.

Bellow’s heirs

In Granta’s special issue on Chicago, Don DeLillo, he who chronicled New York’s underbelly in Underworld, pays warm tribute to Nelson Algren.

Tricks of the trade

The discipline of economics is possibly paying the price for its vaulting popularity, since the end of the Second World War.

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Option Trading: Bear Market Strategies identifies option as the best hedging mechanism in the Indian bear market conditions and spells out strategies to market reasonable...

Growth curve

China today is attracting global attention, with every country viewing China’s policies and growth with different perspectives and lenses.

Freaky, not cool

0ften, the most serious problem with sequels to a very successful first book (or even first film) is that the writer (or filmmaker) ends up trying too hard to better the original, without success.

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While analysing the trade -offs betweenbetween growth in agriculture and environmental sustainability, Water, Agriculture, and SustainabiltyWell-Being focuses on the balance between private benefits and sustainable development, growing demand-supply gaps, inter-sectoral allocation and pricing of water, and trade and environment.

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A book through music

Intimate histories

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Neglected dimensions of the Kashmir story get their space

Silent Valley

Blood to ink

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BOOK IT

Shades of black

“Depend more on mentor capital than VC”

COLLECTOR OF MEMORIES

Just out

Book it

Dead end

When loss isn’t less

Bellow’s heirs

Tricks of the trade

Just out

Growth curve

Freaky, not cool

Just Out