Abhinav Agarwal

Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, by Peter Schweizer Hardcover: 336 p...

A Journey Through Oligarch Valley, by Yasha Levine H ere is  a  short segue I request you to indulge me in: In 1998, the Delhi Jal ...

The Friendless God, by S. Anuradha T his is the tale of three people, a god, and the relationship the three have with Rama, their god. ...

Amazon Launches Prime Music in India. What It Means for the Indian e-commerce Market O n a day when it was reported that the online...

The OM Mala - Meanings Of The Mystic Sound, by Nityanand Misra T he meaning of the word Om is not something most of us ponder over. Om i...

The Attention Merchants - The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, by Tim Wu T he business of selling requires that the target consu...

The Sacred Sword: The Legend of Guru Gobind Singh, by Hindol Sengupta T he pressing need to bring history alive and make it interesting...

R ahul Gandhi, the 47-year old scion of the Nehru dynasty, is all set to ascend the throne of the Congress Party. If things go as planned, ...

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, by Robert Sutton I n preparation for a review of...

W hat does wealth mean to you? Let me start with myself. It has meant different things at different points in time and life. I suppose thi...

T here is a famous story in the Mahabharata concerning Yayati, one of the ancestors of the Pandavas and Kauravas. Because of a curse, he l...

Black Money and Tax Havens Paperback, by R Vaidyanathan T he subject of black money and tax havens that facilitate and act as conduits ...

Aadhaar A Biometric History of India's 12-Digit Revolution by Shankkar Aiyar T his book is perhaps the most detailed and compreh...

Text and Interpretation - The Indian Tradition, by Kapil Kapoor T his is an excerpt from Prof. Kapil Kapoor's book, "Text an...

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future,  by Martin Ford " I'm smart; you're dumb. I'm big; ...

C orporate sagas seem to come in twos. The  mega-fracas  that erupted in 2016 between  Cyrus Mistry , then Chairman of Tata Sons, and t...

Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management? T his one comes from the  Sep-Oct, 2017  issue of  Harvard Business Review . Between strat...

Inside Chanakya’s Mind: Aanvikshiki and the Art of Thinking, by Radhakrishnan Pillai T he relevance of Chanakya to today's world h...

Photo by  Tim Gouw  on  Unsplash S eeing the gay abandon and effortless ease with which people in today's hyper-connected world see...

R emember Chuck Noland? The character in the movie Castaway, who has to use the blade of an ice-skate to extract his abscessed tooth, with...