scorecardresearch
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
HomePageTurnerBook Excerpts

Book Excerpts

Indians want govts to be run like corporations, but this is why a country is not a company

Former civil servants Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah write that we in India revere success and wealth. We assume good HR practices in TCS will work in govt.

Now AI can conduct your job interview at Tata Consultancy, Unilever, Marriott

It will no longer be easy to smooth talk your way into a job because an AI-bot will see through you faster than a human can.

BJP ensured Modi was in 75% of all photos in newspapers’ front page before 2014 polls

BJP’s visual featuring focused on making sure that at least 40% of all photographs in newspapers were of Narendra Modi.

Two yrs before 1971 war, RAW’s RN Kao told Indira Gandhi to be ready for Pakistan partition

In contrast, higher levels of MEA took a more conservative view and argued that Pakistan's unity was in India’s interest.

She was the first woman builder in Mughal rule and gave Delhi Humayun’s Tomb

Humayun’s Tomb introduced India to the Persian style of a domed mausoleum set in the centre of a landscaped char-bagh garden.

Pragya Thakur was Amit Shah’s personal choice to take on Digvijaya Singh in Bhopal

Amit Shah felt Pragya Thakur was the right nominee to 'expose' the Congress' alleged 'anti-Hindu' bias.

Chidambaram says he is no Billa-Ranga, the convicts in 1978 crime that changed Delhi forever

Tihar jailer Sunil Gupta tells the story of how something big went really wrong during the hanging of rape-and-murder convicts Billa and Ranga.

Aryans did not invade India or destroy the Indus Valley Civilisation. This is proof

It is tragic that our history textbooks say Aryans came and wiped out the settlements of the Sapt Sindhu.

God’s own Khilafat? Why Kerala is a hotspot for ISIS in India

An ISIS member from Kerala said Narendra Modi winning was a ‘blessing in disguise’.

When my father Balraj Sahni showed the ills of capitalism to me in Kashmir

Whatever happened, sooner or later Balraj Sahni would return to Marx and Engels and the example of the Soviet Union. That was his answer to every social ill.

On Camera

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

How Op Mahadev unfolded: A day-by-day account of how the net closed in on Pahalgam terrorists

New Delhi: The killing of the three LeT terrorists behind the Pahalgam massacre was the culmination of an operation that started immediately after the...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.