(Image Credit: http://www.commonfolks.in) Armed with a copy of Dan Cruickshank’s A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks, I arrived in London in December 2022, only to be welcomed by a temperature that was downright forbidding. The unforgiving cold slashed, clawed and gnawed at my face while every gust of wind was like experiencing the … Continue reading Desanthiri – S. Ramakrishnan

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.co.uk) The Path is old wine repackaged into a new bottle with an innovatively redesigned label. The subtitle to this book by Michael Puett, the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology at Harvard University, and Christine Gross-Loh, journalist and author, is a little bit of an oddity in itself. What … Continue reading The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything – Michael Puett & Christine Gross-Loh  

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.co.uk) A senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and an experienced hand in matters of foreign and economic policy issues ruling the roost in Beijing, Brussels, Berlin, London, and Washington D.C., Andrew Small’s latest book, Rupture, is essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of China’s … Continue reading Rupture: China and The Global Race for the Future – Andrew Small  

(Image credit: Marlowbooksuk.com) Reading Last Summer in the City is akin to driving blindfolded and at a speed that is positively indiscreet. One does not know whether they would end up in a mangled heap of metal and flesh or turn out to be the most artful dodger ever, deceiving death and meeting their date … Continue reading Last Summer in the City – Gianfranco Calligarich