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Saying a lot, without speaking

Forty years or more ago, Lawrence Durrell, who is not generally known for light-heartedness, wrote a trilogy on diplomatic life. It is called the ...

Sunset years

If you are approaching your retirement years, should you get out of the stock market? Answering this question is a chapter titled ‘How much in risky ...

At 50, witty ‘Amul’ girl captured in charming book

Over the past four decades she provided a running commentary on the state of affairs of India and on her 50th anniversary, the cheeky, impish ‘Amul’ ...

`Chowringhee' completes 50 years of publication

As the classic novel Chowringhee completes a glorious fifty years of publication today, author Mani Sankar Mukherji says it is still a “mystery” for ...

‘Globally relevant & quality content, a challenge for business book publishing in India'

The appetite for business books is growing enormously in India. The demographic profile of India and the rapidly growing managerial workforce favour growth. The other important trend that we see is the advent of online book retailers. Mr Vinay Hebbar, Managing Director, Harvard Business Publishing, India

Is anybody in there?

An account of how our brain makes us work mostly without our knowledge, especially when it comes to crime.

A fitting academic tribute to a great economist

Talk of ‘public finance' and what springs to mind is the widening fiscal deficit, the Government's perpetual borrowings to fund this deficit and the ...

New combination of old elements

Ten, fifteen, twenty years from now, what will be the things you will regret most? Perhaps not the dumb things you did during that time, but the ...

Invest in human capital

When measured in terms of your lifetime earning capacity, your human capital is your most valuable asset, reminds Jerry A. Webman in MoneyShift: How ...

Economics will dominate China, India ties: Expert

Economics will dominate the future relationship between China and India and it will be characterised by competition and collaboration simultaneously, ...

Nothing more than normative wisdom

A senior colleague was recently trying to persuade one of the grey eminences of the monetary policy world to work on a ‘tell all' memoir. It was ...

Putting customers in the centre of things

Businesses exist because of customers; there's someone at the end of that pipeline to buy your goods and services; Customers are the core of business ...

Do one thing at a time with excellence

The foremost diktat in The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling (www.simonandschuster.co.uk) is to focus on the ...

Walk in the shoes of the adversary

Play devil's advocate, urges Rekha Shetty in Innovate Happily (www.penguinbooksindia.com). “As a discipline, think of the exact opposite of the view ...

Dissecting the Islam-West standoff

Even though Irfan Husain's book Fatal Faultlines is essentially about Pakistan, Islam and the West, millions of Muslims across the world will nod ...

DMRC book on Metro Man's strategy

Metro Man, Mr E. Sreedharan's management strategies, which made Delhi Metro a success model, are now in the form of a book. The book, ‘25 Management ...

The banker of philanthropy

Jacqueline Novogratz puts out her hands as if she is holding a large crystal ball, her crystal-blue eyes fixed between them. “There's a growing ...

Random truths in common things

For the last 42 years I have wondered, if only now and then, who Padma Desai is or was. That she is an economist of some repute, I knew, of course.

A world laced with history and humour

Tapan Raychaudhuri grew up in an elite and prominent political family in erstwhile East Bengal – one of the most prosperous parts of the country in ...

Engineering a good novel

What is it about India's engineering and management campuses that are making them a breeding ground for fiction writers?

Be a good coach

In improving employees' performance, what can be more critical than strategic plan, HR initiatives and benefits, and the training offered by the ...

When others are selling, Warren is buying

As stock prices decrease, the prospects for investment increase. This is one of the simple tenets highlighted by Mary Buffett and David Clark in The ...

Almost-Famous Five in textile city

Corporate executive G.B. Prabhat wields his pen to sketch a coming-of-age literary fiction set in his hometown, Coimbatore.

For social change

Social investing is ‘an excellent model of positive social change.' It is ‘a viable democratic idea in action for the betterment of humankind.' Thus ...

Affirming the need for quotas, but fine-tuning them

This book is an essential read for the middle and upper class (rather, the upper castes) who see “Mandal” as the biggest blight in their lives. With ...

Drawing out dormant capabilities

The introvert-extrovert divide is the most fundamental dimension of a personality. In this book, Susan Cain, a corporate lawyer, who specialises in ...

A canvas in need of more colour

When at the fag-end of the grand spectacle of the 1911, Durbar George V announced the shifting of the capital, the last of the Kings, in a long list ...

Job loss signals

With the world ‘becoming flat' and outsourcing here to stay, almost everybody is vulnerable, writes Lakshmanan Solayappan in I Lost My Job But… ...

Home wins

The sales target for Krish, a new tractor that Deere & Company launched in India, was 2,350. It was already a ‘stretch' goal for the first four ...

Book on FDI in retail trade of India released

As part of its national campaign against FDI in retail, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has released a book — FDI in Retail Trade of ...

Through the ages...

Excerpts and photographs from the book The beginning Early one day in July 1639, an Englishman surveyed a sandy strip along the Coromandel Coast.

How Madras championed enterprise

Any book commemorating an institution usually carries paeans of praise to the founders, dwells in detail on events in its life and rounds off with a ...