book review 2024
Book Review | India, essentially liberal? If not, should we celebrate the death of its promise?
The author is a retired corporate honcho and a marketing wizard
Book Review | Fashionista-influencer discovers Goa’s susegad
Goagr@m is about Madhur, a young fashion designer who adopted social media as a business and branding tool
Book Review | Manifesto of Indian citizen shows constant vigil must for democracy
This is a remarkably simple but effective method of reminding citizenry that a fight for democratic rights and privileges is ongoing
Book Review | Jingoistic war fantasy presented as speculative fiction
The novel also throws a unique geopolitical situation into the mix
Book Review | Writing India’s own history of libertarian economic thought leadership
This is a book of economic and social history which shows future possibilities
Book Review | The importance of being an earnestly-radicalised, young Muslim
We see two sides of Mahmud throughout the book
Book Review | Anatomy of an Indian self-help guide
Chetan Bhagat knows his audience well and has catered to their needs quite flawlessly for over a decade now
Book Review | Nayanima’s testimony of Kabul’s fall has a few what-ifs, some caveats
Two days before Kabul fell to the Taliban the journalist proposed to write a despatch predicting its imminent takeover
Book Review | An old woman’s odd quest to find her co-wives
Antony’s prose is so lyrical that it can be set to music
Exactly how do we bring in selfless leaders, redraft democracy?
In effect, what democracy and democratic institutions require is periodic review, reflection, audit and redesign