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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.

Beware of darkness

It’s a book of ideas with many layers; it’s about individual lives, universal histories; it’s about love, loss and the essential loneliness of being.

Life at urban margins

India has to improve its urban areas to achieve objectives of economic development. As huge investment is required in India’s urban sector, it has to look for innovative approaches for financing urban services.

DNA of a Nation

All too often the explanation for the current turmoil in Pakistan—in particular the threat of radical Islamists—is traced back to the events of 9/11. Unfortunately, that is far too simple a characterisation of Pakistan’s problems.

Banking the right way

There are very few occasions when a book makes a profound impact on the reader. Microfinance for Bankers and Investors by Elisabeth Rhyne is one such book where the author manages to strike an emotional chord with the reader.

Beg, borrow and steal

In The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett tells the story of John Charles Gilkey, who has a simple motive: to gather the most prestigious rare-book collection around.

Cross-cultural encounters

This anthology, according to the editors shows “a variety of encounters — mental, physical and spiritual — of Australians with India over the past century and a half.” The idea is to further the understanding of Australia through this collection of short stories.

In search of the sacred

A devadasi who initially resisted sex work, later comes to regard it as sacred, and pushes daughters to it. A jute factory employee who leaves to live in a cremation ground as a tantric.

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Shades of black

“Depend more on mentor capital than VC”

COLLECTOR OF MEMORIES

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Dead end

When loss isn’t less

Bellow’s heirs

Tricks of the trade

Just out

Growth curve

Freaky, not cool

Just Out

Beware of darkness

Life at urban margins

DNA of a Nation

Banking the right way

Beg, borrow and steal

Cross-cultural encounters

In search of the sacred