Anne Boden had left UK’s top banks as she was disillusioned with the sector. The financial crash and emerging technologies presented vast opportunity for change, but change it would not, and Boden was increasingly frustrated and decided to do something radical and set up her own bank. In her latest book Anne reveals how she…
The 1943 Western The Outlaw, while making the Texan Aviator and film mogul Howard Hughes became infatuated on its star Jane Russell’s breasts. Hughes had fired the film’s previous director, Howard Hawks, for not focusing sufficiently on Russell’s cleavage and decided to direct it himself. His first job was to apply his aeronautical engineering expertise…
Several live in a western world shaped by liberalism, although in the wake of Brexit and Trump, liberalism is under threat as never before. According to Helena Rosenblatt “ We are very muddled about what we mean by liberalism”. Even the past historians are of little help. Her latest book “ The Lost History of…
American author Maria Dahvana Headley known her young adult and fantasy works wrties her novel The Mere Wife, takes on the Old English epic spins a rich web of associations, echoes and re-configurations. Beowulf is a story in three battles – first Beowulf slays the monster Grendel, who has been plaguing the Danes of Heorot.…
Julian Baggini explores philosophical traditions worldwide, and understand western traditions, methodologies. According to Baggini, if it is western philosophical inquiry, which is predominantly “Truth seeking” and Eastern philosophies “ way seeking”. Hindu Philosophy is based on observation and invokes six sources of knowledge, including testimony based on reliable witnesses, and also anupalabdhi ( non-perception: seeing…
In 1990s Jeff Bezos started Amazon in converted garage of his house in Seattle, with first desk build out of cheap doors he bought from Home Depot. Twenty years later Heike Geissler’s book, Seasonal Associate, goes to a selection day for a Christmas temp job at an Amazon warehouse in Leipzig, eastern Germany and notices…
The world is changing dramatically and with the advent of Brexit and Trump, the isolation and fragmentation permeating the western world stand in sharp contrast to event along the Silk Roads, which new ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established. Peter Frankopan assesses the global reverberations of these constant shifts in the centre of…
“Life is not a joke”Szalay seems to be repeating the phrase in the book often and uses plot twists and clear cut moral dilemmas to hold reader’s attention. Turbulence is book of 12 stories based around the plane journeys exploring the turmoil caused by physical and emotional distance. The principal character of each of…
When Anthony Eden, the British Prime minister whose career collapsed when the US pulled the plug on the 1956 Anglo-French campaign to reclaim the Suez Canal, he had conversation with Enoch Powell, who said “I want to tell you that in the Middle East our great enemies are the Americans.” The competition was underway in…
Over 600m Indians, more than half the country’s population are under 25, a generation that is simultaneously more connected and global than any that has come before it and it is an important contribution to understanding the 21st century’s other emerging superpower. Dreamers bring to life their boundless ambition and extraordinary imagination to create opportunities…