“How Asia Works…” (“The book”) comes highly recommended, garnering rave reviews from the likes of Bill Gates etc. The book more than merely lives up to the hype generated. Joe Studwell is more of a surgeon than an economist/journalist as he diagnoses the stumbling blocks, flexes out stimulants and prescribes suggestions that constitute the preserve … Continue reading How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell

  "If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha" - Sam Manekshaw The feeling that stems from a reading of Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu can at best be described as ambivalent. If you are looking for an extended and elaborate history of the stellar origins … Continue reading GURKHA: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas – Kailash Limbu, Alexander Norman