By Vikas Datta, Title: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?; Author: Alan Alda; Publisher: Random House; Pages: 240; Price: Rs 699 Communication is the basis of human relationships and most of our endeavours. But increasingly, it takes place between...
By Nivedita Singh, Title: Treasures: Allahabad Museum, Allahabad; Author: Malavika Singh, Rajesh Purohit; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages: 190; Price: Rs 995 Enjoying rare books in a museum is common, but you can now enjoy the Allahabad Museum through a book -...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Fascism: A Warning; Author: Madeleine Albright; Publisher: William Collins; Pages: 304; Price: Rs 699 If not the outcome of the Second World War, the Berlin Wall's fall seemed to pave the way for democracy's triumph -- but nearly three decades...
By Saket Suman, Book: Sedition In Liberal Democracies; Author: Anushka Singh; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 391; Price: Rs 995 This recent offering sets out to examine the relationship between liberal democracies and sedition. At the onset, the author...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Death at the Durbar; Author: Arjun Raj Gaind; Publisher: HarperCollins India; Pages: 368; Price: Rs 399 It is India in 1911 -- the Raj's high-point, with the King Emperor setting foot in his prized dominion for the first time. The colonial...
By Vikas Datta, Title: The People Vs Tech; Author: Jamie Bartlett; Publisher: Ebury Press/Penguin Random House; Pages: 256; Price: Rs 499 Duality is a feature of humanity and manifests itself in all its works, particularly its technology. Advances in digital...
By Vikas Datta, Title: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing; Author: Daniel H. Pink; Publisher: Canongate; Pages: 272; Price: Rs 599 Many of us have heard the proverb "strike when the iron is hot" (or its equivalents), but like all such sayings, rarely do we...
By Vikas Datta, Title: The Philosopher and the Wolf; Author: Mark Rowlands; Publisher: Granta Books; Pages: 256; Price: Rs 499 There are many things that distinguish human beings as a species -- apart from an inclination for dazzling technological gizmos -- but the...
By Vikas Datta, Title: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership; Author: James Comey; Publisher: Pan Macmillan; Pages: 305; Price: Rs 799 As an Assistant US Attorney in New York in the early 1990s, James Comey was part of the anti-mafia campaign and became well...
By Saket Suman, Book: India's Aged: Needs and Vulnerabilities; Edited by: Udaya S. Mishra and S. Irudaya Rajan; Publisher: Orient Blackswan; Pages: 254; Price: Rs 825 The immense potential of India's young population is celebrated time and again by politicians,...