Reading Dr.Oliver Sacks is one of the surest means by which one can assimilate the essence of ‘perception’. Intelligent, humble, humane and honest,…
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Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business by Rana Foroohar
An acerbic and scathing indictment of the pernicious practices, perilous ventures and impetuous outlook that has almost become symptomatic of Wall Street. Ms.Rana…
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Bookend - Where reading meets review
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present – Revised Edition by David Runciman
An interesting book on the stability as well as instability that characterises the democratic form of governance. David Runciman highlights – what he…
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Bookend - Where reading meets review
Debtors’ Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility by Robert Kuttner
A much needed work to demonstrate the dangerous consequences of some ill-conceived economic policies that are being formulated, nay foisted upon the helpless…
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Al Capone once said, “I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand”. Virat Kohli seems to echo the…
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During the course of a magnificent, marauding and merciless century which took the wind out of the collective sails of the Sri Lankans…
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On an overcast August day in the year 2002 at Headingly, Leeds, Sourav Ganguly won the toss and, much to the bewilderment of experts…
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The erudite and extremely readable George Dobell, in an insightful piece has gone on to describe Shivnarine Chanderpaul as not only a dogged…
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The man who according to the former Australian captain Ian Chappell, was in possession of ‘peripheral awareness’ prepared himself to face Shakib Al…
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The swagger that had etched itself as an integral part of cricketing folklore was unmistakably there. The attitude of nonchalance accompanying every step…