Sounding the alarm against State Capitalism is pointless if you cannot defend the ‘authentic’ version.
07 July 2010This Sufi rocker’s autobiography makes you want to air-guitar your way along as you read.
03 June 2010In casting doubt on US rescue missions, Stiglitz saves economics from autism charges.
03 March 2010Why Keynes reigns. And why that’s no reason to adopt his economics lazily.
11 February 2010The Marx Brothers were right. X’mas or not, there aint no ‘sanity clause’, not in book contracts.
13 January 2010Here’s a way to fix run-riot capitalism that is wowing policymakers in the West
24 November 2009Amartya Sen declares the Ideal State useless. But four months on, its resilience as an idea begins to intrigue
18 November 2009How fuzzy minds affect buzzy times. A book that puts the economy on the couch to have its head examined
01 July 2009John Man’s book on the warrior king Genghis Khan tries hard to make a leadership guru out of him. And falls flat
12 June 2009Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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