Title: These Are The Plunderers
Authors: Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pp 400, Rs 1,299
Much has been written about the gulf between rich and poor, the effects the income inequality has on the US’s well-being. But nothing has fully detailed the role a small cohort of elite financiers has played in this dispiriting outcome in the past 30 years. Morgenson and Rosner unmask the small group of Wall Street financiers, and their government enablers, who use dubious practices to undermine the nation’s economy for their own enrichment—private equity.
Title: Why Didn’t You Come Sooner?
Author: Kailash Satyarthi
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Pp 288, Rs 399
The work of rescuing children from slavery is not for the faint of heart, as the 12 gut-wrenching accounts in this book will show. Harder still is to give them their life back, after they have been kidnapped, trafficked, sold, abused and made to work in horrific conditions. Kailash Satyarthi’s own life and mission were entwined with the journeys of these children. This book tells the story of their shared struggle for justice and dignity.
Title: Madam Commissioner
Meeran Chadha Borwankar
Pan Macmillan
Pp 296, Rs 499
Meeran Chadha Borwankar graduated from the National Police Academy as the sole woman of its 1981 batch. From there, she would go on to investigate a string of sensitive and controversial cases, fighting crime together with corruption and discrimination, never compromising on her integrity. Borwankar’s steadfast efforts saw her become Maharashtra’s first woman district police chief as well as its first woman police commissioner.
Title: The Speaking Window
Authors: Sandeep Dutt, Faisal Hayat & Ritika
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pp 272
The Speaking Window aims to bring together narratives from the generation that would soon be completely lost to time. With its beginnings in a Facebook page called ‘Bolti Khidki: The Speaking Window’, is an important work, based on the premise that people are humane in their natural state; that, among the stories of bloodshed and rape that the Partition is most remembered for, there are also stories of religious tolerance and mutual respect.
