Raisina Chronicles
Edited by S Jaishankar & Samir Saran
Rupa Publications
Pp 232, Rs 595
Raisina Chronicles celebrates a decade of the Raisina Dialogue. It brings together voices of leaders and thinkers reflecting on the dialogue’s impact on how we may navigate global challenges and create solutions that work. S Jaishankar and Samir Saran, who are also the curators of the dialogue, emphasise that diversity, dissent, discord, and divergence of opinion make for the necessary ingredients for a sustainable future, shaped and owned by all.
The Thinking Machine
Stephen Witt
Penguin Random House
Pp 288, Rs 899
The Thinking Machine is the story of how Nvidia evolved to supplying hundred-million-dollar supercomputers. It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision for computing, becoming one of the wealthiest men alive. It is the story of a revolution in computer architecture. And it’s the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, which Jensen Huang has billed as the ‘next industrial revolution’.
WHAT YOU’RE MADE FOR
George Raveling & Ryan Holiday
Hachette
Pp 224, Rs 699
George Raveling knows all about beating the odds. A living legend, he has been a game-changing basketball coach, stood at the side of Martin Luther King Jr, mentored Michael Jordan and shaped the world of sports as a director at Nike. But his life began in the shadow of segregation, death and mental illness. Here, he teams up with bestselling author Ryan Holiday to share the lessons drawn from his extraordinary life and career.
Birds, Sex and Beauty
Matt Ridley
HarperCollins
Pp 336, Rs 488
In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin’s sexual selection theory. Animals rarely treat sex as a simple or mutually beneficial transaction. Choosing a mate is often a transcendent event to be approached with reverence, suspicion, angst and quite a bit of violence. For Matt Ridley, nowhere is this more acute than in birds.
Unexpectedly
Maithree Wickramasinghe
Penguin Random House
Pp 128, Rs 499
Unexpectedly is a poetry collection that captures life in Sri Lanka from the 1970s onwards—written from the inter-space of war and peace, the throes of the pandemic, and the edge of political chaos and personal crisis. It is a moving treatise that sweeps from the personal to the political, to the social, to the cerebral and the philosophical. Written in a medley of poetic voices, these poems are haunting and imaginative, at once instinctive even as they are historical.
