The Last Dance of Rationality
Rohit Prasad
Hachette
Pp 352, Rs 799
In this book, economist Rohit Prasad examines the major economic, geopolitical and social events of the current century, including the Covid-19 pandemic, the US debacle in Afghanistan, the rise of Trump, the appeal of Putin, the influence of Big Tech and the erosion of human relationships. Along the way, Prasad reveals how the ideology of ‘rationality’ helped build our world, and how the current fault lines represent its highest development as well as its last dance.
Sheikh Abdullah
Chitralekha Zutshi
HarperCollins
Pp 384, Rs 799
Kashmiri leader Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah (1905-82) is one of the best-known and most controversial political figures of 20th-century south Asia. A fierce Kashmiri nationalist, Abdullah is best remembered for securing Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India in 1947, among others. The book is as much a biography of one Kashmiri as that of an entire generation of leaders who shaped the politics and institutions of 20th-century south Asia.
Getting Dressed and Parking Cars
Alok Kejriwal
Penguin Random House
Pp 200, Rs 299
The book captures the business adventure of Alok Kejriwal’s fourth entrepreneurial venture —Games2win. The Walt Disney Company acquired Alok’s previous company. Games2win has been creating car parking and dress-up games online with the aim of becoming India’s most successful casual gaming start-up in the global market. Each chapter in this book captures Kejriwal’s real-life experience of building, scaling and routinely failing in his venture.
Adapt
Harit Nagpal
Westland Books
Rs 599
How do you retain those customers or employees you worked so hard to acquire? How do you build a collaborative and innovative company culture? What does it take to turn your business around and survive—even thrive—in a volatile world? Harit Nagpal reflects on the questions that animate every business manager. Through ten stories, Nagpal investigates the idea of adaptation—the one thing every business needs if it wishes to evolve.
Vazhga Vazhga and Other Stories
Imayam
Penguin Random House
Pp 200, Rs 399
Imayam is considered one of the most important Tamil writers today and this collection of stories reveals just why that is. Whether he is depicting a lack of political morality in the novella Vazhga Vazhga, questioning whether religion unifies or divides in Tiruneeru Sami, or narrating his unique spin on Samban, a character from one our epics, Imayam’s unsparing gaze on society gently and subtly reveals the inequalities people must live with and navigate.
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