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Monday, November 3, 2025

Afterword

‘Wisdom of Finance’ uses myth, literature and history to explain the mysteries of Wall Street

Desai considers Elizabeth Bennet an incredible financial practitioner and would agree Madonna’s ‘Material Girl’ provides better financial advice than an average sales pitch.

‘Our Time Has Come’: A feel good book about India and how the world sees it

Indians may feel it breaks no new ground, but Alyssa Ayres’s new book highlights to young and educated readers how the world looks at India.

‘Our Time Has Come’: Alyssa Ayres’s chronicle of India’s rise to global prominence

Despite the various challenges author Alyssa Ayres has highlighted in her book, she sees India well on the road to acquiring global power and status.

The silent segregation of Muslim students in Bhopal’s schools

In many schools of Bhopal, students are being put in classes based on the language they choose to study, but that has other consequences.

‘The Dawn Watch’ is an attempt to understand Conrad in a globalised world

In Maya Jasanoff’s book 'The Dawn Watch', Joseph Conrad is placed in the context of world politics. Jasanoff refuses to treat Conrad as mythical personality

Mark Tully’s ‘Upcountry Tales’: Between the journalistic and the cinematic

The book is British-Indian journalist Mark Tully’s second run-in with fiction, and the stories are all tied to Rajiv Gandhi’s India – the late 1980s.

Sujatha Gidla’s ‘Ants Among Elephants’: Baring the caste bugs in India’s revolution

‘Your life is your caste, your caste is your life’, writes first-time author Sujatha Gidla, who has been unable to escape caste ostracism in faraway USA.

The Book of Chocolate Saints: Story of an artist in a godless world

Jeet Thayil's latest is deeply provoking book about art, philosophy, and ‘chocolate saints’ who live in the margins of history. Jeet Thayil’s 'The Book Of...

We That Are Young: A modern-day Shakespearean tragedy

Preti Taneja’s debut novel 'We That Are Young' is a perfect cocktail of well-etched Shakespearean characters in contemporary India.

‘On a Stormy Course’ is Valson Thampu’s defence against charges that plagued his career

Thampu rarely acknowledges his faults; clarifying that only a person of ‘superhuman will and a heroic sense of purpose’ would survive in his situation.

On Camera

Rahul Gandhi must stop with irresponsible SIR comments. There’s no ‘click’ to delete voters

No matter the rhetoric spun by the Opposition, the people of Bharat have faith not just in the system, but also in the intelligence of the voters.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.