Books

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

To explain the relationship between wealth and income, a recent paper ( www.ers.usda.gov) uses the bathtub comparison. Wealth is analogous to the ...

She was Urdu's most iconoclastic writer — engaging, fiery and controversial, searingly honest and, above all, a rebel, a feminist and a fighter.

Through the memoir “A Life in Words”, Ismat Chughtai deftly describes the double standards and hypocrisy in Muslim society vis-à-vis women. Her rebellious nature went hand-in-hand with her unrestrained, courageous writing.

A common characteristic of bosses is the ‘I want this now' attitude. Changing such a boss may be tough; but you can learn how to manage such an ...

If the anxieties about the balance between work and life are keeping you awake, the right read for you is What Really Works: Blending the seven Fs ...

Condensing the economic history of a country as old, vast and complex as India into 366 pages is a challenging task. Considering that, the authors ...

The right to secede or the right not to secede is what is deliberated upon in the book under review. Neera Chandoke has dealt with the issue at a ...

The best part of Zareer Masani's memoir, And All is Said, on his late parents – Minoo Masani and Shakuntala – is the candour with which he tells the ...

Any learning, says Sunil Unny Guptan, is best carried out in an environment shorn of external status. He cautions that hierarchies in organisations ...

It is possible to know the path of birds flying in the sky, but not the ways of officers moving with their intentions concealed, says Kautilya. “We ...