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Following a lecture at the Harvard Business School late last year, where he enthralled students on the art of management, the defining mantra that Sir...

Going by common human experience, a bright young man of humble beginnings is supposed to rise to success and alleviate his parent’s sufferings and...

In the 1950s, when Indian Army’s top brass appraised then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru about the Chinese build-up and incursions, concerted with...

He makes it dark, makes it grim, makes it tough, but then, for the love of God, also tells us a joke. Uday Gupt in his first ever book Final Cut does...

The current state of Pakistan is messy and full of existential contradictions. A nation ­– built on the false premise of a potential ‘identity...

The only time that Mahatma Gandhi is actively remembered by young Indians is perhaps a day before his birthday. One day before Gandhi Jayanti, hoards...

City Adrift: A short biography of Bombay is a myth buster. There are about as many myths surrounding the city as there are immigrants the Shiv Sena...

Why Don’t we attack China?’ the CA asked the General, ‘It’s big. It’s close. It’s hard to miss.’When you read a book it is tough to enter an author’s...

There’s an atmospheric quality in Jhumpa Lahiri’s writings. Yes, that we all know. She has mersmerised with Interpreter of Maladies, the freshness of...

Not too long ago, self-help books began as a distinct genre, and today they are, no doubt, a roaring business for publishers. No wonder, bookstores...

Normally, we hear of Punjab and think about the partition that horribly divided it into East and West. The scare is permanent, as one of the world’s...

A City Run by Machines London is a Mecca for non–resident Indians. I was returning from a night club Hippodrome in Piccadilly, on a Sunday morning in...