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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
TopicBook worm

Topic: Book worm

Muhammad Yunus on what he does best: removing poverty, unemployment and carbon emission

Debabrata Pal -
There might be differences of opinion regarding the internal functioning and structures of microfinance institution but it is hard to deny its positive impact in reducing poverty.

‘The Bengalis’ does a thing that books of its kind rarely do: criticise the Bengalis

Neera Majumdar -
Sudeep Chakravarti's mammoth undertaking to trace the Bengalis from its genesis to now results in a detailed, intriguing, and confounding book.

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

Shantam Goyal -
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.

History in incubation: forgotten tales retold

Asad Rahim Khan -
There is no greater vehicle for high drama, low farce, and ultimate tragedy, than the relationship between Pakistan and India.

A Resurgence of Husain Ila Pal’s “Husain: Portrait of an Artist” only further canonises the artist

Namrata Chhabria -
The book sparkles because of the material the author had access to and makes Husain a consumable superstar.

Tom Hanks can be anything, even an author

Nayanika Chatterjee -
‘Uncommon Type’ is a book of 18 short stories which provides a comfort read, preferably in bed with Chinese take-out.

Gabriel Tallent’s ‘My Absolute Darling’ is a deliciously dark and heartrending novel

Vandana Menon -
Tallent’s debut novel about a child growing up in isolation and then finding herself keeps the reader within its pages days after putting it down. 

‘The Last Battle of Saraighat’ is a battle half-won

Jayanta Kalita -
Rajat Sethi & Shubhrastha’s book eulogises the BJP’s victory in Assam, but fails to capture the truepicture of the Northeast and its complex issues.

The Sick of History: A Review of Sing, Unburied, Sing

Shantam Goyal -
Jesmyn Ward’s haunting control over language, like the stench of history, remains lodged under the reader’s skin. 

Jasoda: Kiran Nagarkar’s stark narrative is a sight for sore eyes 

Katyayini Singh -
Jasoda traces the journey undertaken by the titular character and her children for survival in the face of patriarchy and gut wrenching poverty.
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Opinion

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

Meenakashi Lekhi -
By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Rank turners take away the fairness of Test cricket, make ordinary spinners extraordinary

Royal Enfield bikes are the new rage in Bangladesh. What happens to ‘boycott India’ now

Economy

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

ThePrint Team -
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Defence

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

Snehesh Alex Philip -
While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

National Interest

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

Shekhar Gupta -
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.

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