On religion… Religions have been used by most rulers to control the people. It was true thousands of years ago and is now. Why? Because it doesn’t require any proof, only emotions and em...

In the international arena, his relations with the Pakistan premier, Benazir Bhutto, the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Chinese strongman, Deng Xiaoping, reveal the astonishing rapport he h...

Subjectivity had always played an important role in the agenda-setting of news, but after these wars, Seneviratne argues, it underwent a major shift — the Northern “libertarian” medi...

Understandably, therefore, Dew wants her readers to view Arendt as more of a philosopher than a theorist. She reads Arendt’s body of work by placing them alongside the works of other philosopher...

The fleshing out of the two adversaries is uneven too. Gandhi, understandably, dominates, with Akbar tracing his political journey ably, even though the trajectory of this journey would be familiar to...

The book focuses on the market dynamics of franchise-based Leagues like the IPL and how it has contributed to building teams. The CEO of the Kolkata Knight Riders, Venky Mysore, tries to justify the r...

The fleshing out of the two adversaries is uneven too. Gandhi, understandably, dominates, with Akbar tracing his political journey ably, even though the trajectory of this journey would be familiar to...

A running theme in the book is based on what a professor at a business school asks his class when presenting a case-study based on real-life data: what is going on here? That appears to be the most se...

The plot more or less falls apart when the science fiction bit appears. Plasm seems mostly to be a plot device, about as convincing as infinity stones, designed to turn a decent young kid who used to ...

Most readers of Stephen King’s works will know The Shining and Pet Sematary. They will also know that neither of these books — easily among the author’s most memorable works, and arguably the...