In photographs: On Edmund Hillary’s birth centenary year, views of Everest country

Sujoy Das’s photographs and Lisa Choegyal’s commentary come together in the book ‘Everest: Reflections on the Solukhumbu’.

Anit Mukherjee

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Lisa Choegyal

· Oct 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A new book argues that Jawaharlal Nehru did not lead or manage his armed forces competently enough

An excerpt from ‘The Absent Dialogue’ by Anit Mukherjee, which explores the mind gaps between politicians, bureaucrats and the military in India.

Anit Mukherjee

· Oct 18, 2019 · 08:30 am

A love triangle between an editor, a blogger and an author? This novel goes where publishers do not

An excerpt from Neharika Gupta’s romantic comedy ‘Adulting’, set in the world of publishing.

Neharika Gupta

· Oct 16, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Pico Iyer finds a link between Meryl Streep and Japan, via make-up (or the lack of it)

An excerpt from the acclaimed travel writer’s new book, ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Japan’, about the country where he has lived for 32 years.

Pico Iyer

· Oct 16, 2019 · 08:30 am

What Flipkart got wrong (and right), on its journey from innovative startup to major business

An excerpt from Mihir Dalal’s ‘Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story’, which goes behind the scenes at India’s homegrown ecommerce giant.

Mihir Dalal

· Oct 15, 2019 · 08:30 am

From Nobel Prize winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, economics for today’s hard times

An excerpt from ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’, in which the 2019 Nobel laureates examine whether growth is over, and how to measure well-being.

Abhijit V Banerjee

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Esther Duflo

· Oct 14, 2019 · 05:46 pm

Why is a former Mumbai police hero holed up in the Himalayas? Meet an all new fictional detective

Udayan Mukherjee presents Neville Wadia, who investigates the first of what will probably be many crimes in and around the mountains of Kumaon in Uttarakhand.

Udayan Mukherjee

· Oct 14, 2019 · 08:30 am

This work of auto-fiction is funny, tender, and shattering. Blame the writer, Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is a personal story that kills softly with its terrible beauty.

Suhasini Patni

· Oct 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Why Muhammad Yunus’s Grameen Bank and Intel joined hands to create hi-tech apps for the poor

An excerpt from ‘The Rule of One’, covering the journey of the social technology solutions company Grameen Intel in Bangladesh (and India).

Kazi Huque

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Narayan Sundarajan

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Jacen Greene

· Oct 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘A displaced marginal farmer from Karnataka is unlikely to be hired by Infosys’: P Sainath

An excerpt from ‘Nine Rupees An Hour’, Aparna Karthikeyan’s book examining the the disappearance of livelihoods from an entire state.

Aparna Karthikeyan

· Oct 10, 2019 · 05:47 pm

‘Someone’s going astray in Goregaon, we’re all lost halfway in Goregaon’: Poetry for the rootless

Eight poems from Mihir Chitre’s new book of poetry, ‘School of Age’.

Mihir Chitre

· Oct 10, 2019 · 07:30 am

Draconian discipline: How performers are treated in the ruthlessly rigorous world of Korea’s K-pop

An excerpt from Fatima Bhutto’s study of eastern pop culture, ‘New Kings Of The World’.

Fatima Bhutto

· Oct 09, 2019 · 07:30 am