In this interview with International Business Times, India, Ram Madhav speaks at length about the Modi government’s response to coronavirus pandemic, migrant exodus, and the communal hatred being spread amid the COVID-19. Your browser does not support the video tag. India is in the third phase of its nationwide lockdown to contain the deadly coronavirus […]
Joseph S. Nye, renowned American political scientist and philosopher, is famous for his conceptualisation of ‘Soft Power’. That has revolutionized the foreign policy thinking of every country in the world significantly. In this latest gripping work that I finished reading, “Do Morals Matter – Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump”, Nye takes the […]
Tommy Koh is a well-respected former diplomat and eminent scholar from Singapore. He has edited this fascinating book “Fifty Secrets of Singapore’s Success”. Divided into 50 small chapters, this book very eloquently articulates the inspiring achievements of Singapore in various fields of life. It is the story of a nation’s journey from a backward underdeveloped […]
Fukuyama doesn’t generally disappoint. But not with this book. ‘Identity’, his latest book published in 2018, is his critique of the identity politics in the world. It is a known fact that the phrase ‘identity politics’ was a Liberal invention to decry growing nationalist sentiments in different parts of the world. In this book Fukuyama […]
A fascinating, and a bit frightening account of the digital world we live in, this book is a must read for all tech entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, developers, and more importantly those in governments dealing with or regulating digital technology affairs. Authored by no less a person than the President of the world’s leading IT giant Microsoft, […]
Hats off to Chander Suta for this brilliant, well-researched and intriguing book ‘Missing in Action’. It is the story of those men in uniform – personnel from army and air force – who have been missing while in combat since the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars. There was no such category in the Indian armed […]
Reading some books helps understand contemporary realities from an alternate perspective. The two books I introduce here are the ones written by authors who belonged to Kashmir. One of them lived through the times which he converted into a memoir and the other researched about them. Both come from a milieu that allows them to […]
When it comes to the writings on political Islam in India, there is no better contemporary author than Akbar. In this superbly researched book, he takes the reader through that phase of Indian history, which had seen political Islam in its most aggressive avatar. There are countless books on the story of India’s partition. I […]
The Indian Conservative is doubtless the first of its kind Indian book on the topic authored by eminent tech-entrepreneur and author Jaithirth Rao. It is a monologue essentially in a ‘discursive, anecdotal, conversational and elliptic’ style as the author puts it. Rich in information, this book about Indian conservatism gives the nationalist individuals and scholars […]
