Chhaunk
Abhijit Banerjee
Juggernaut
Pp 352, Rs 899
Chhaunk, oil infused with spices, lies at the heart of Indian cooking. It is just a few teaspoons, but it finishes a dish and gives it its particular piquancy. The pieces in this book can be seen as a literary chhaunk—a sprinkling of ideas and arguments around the social sciences, which imparts its own distinct flavour. Part memoir, part cookbook, Chhaunk playfully uses food to talk about economics, society and India.
The $10 Trillion Dream Dented
Subhash Chandra Garg
Penguin Random House
Pp 424, Rs 999
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This book presents a critical analysis of the performance of the Indian economy under the Modi government from 2019 to 2024. It examines the policy measures taken by the government and identifies the reasons why India can’t become a $10-trillion economy by 2035. The $10 Trillion Dream Dented is an unputdownable work that should encourage policymakers to rethink their approach to managing the Indian economy.
The New Tao of Warren Buffett
Mary Buffett & David Clark
Simon & Schuster
Pp 256, Rs 499
Warren Buffett’s investment achievements are unparalleled. He owes his success to hard work, integrity, and the most elusive commodity of all, common sense. In this book, Mary Buffett joins David Clark to bring readers more of Warren Buffett’s smartest, funniest, and most memorable sayings that reveal the life philosophy and the investment strategies that have made Buffett, and the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, so wealthy.
The Green Book
Amitava Kumar
HarperCollins
Pp 254, Rs 799
In this book, Amitava Kumar shows us that great literature often begins as jottings made in writers’ notebooks. His examples extend from Virginia Woolf and John Berger to Mohandas Gandhi and Shiva Naipaul. In Kumar’s own notebooks, we find written accounts and drawings of travels across continents. In each instance, we discover what comes from noticing. There are many ways of seeing —but seeing is, in fact, being.
Online Gaming in India
Edited by Lovely Dasgupta & Shameek Sen
Chapman & Hall
Pp 304, Rs 980
The book offers a comprehensive overview from diverse perspectives of online gaming technology, policy, and experiments to understand and review the Indian approach. It starts with the technological viewpoint on the governance and regulation and includes the Indian experiment in regulating it. It brings a nuanced approach related to the perspectives of various stakeholders, players, developers, gamers, regulators, law enforcement agencies, the industry and most importantly, the consumers.