India’s economic resurgence is the focus point by Vijay Joshi, an emeritus fellow of Merton College, and Indian economist who has spent most of his professional life in the Oxford University gives revealing account of the past and present Indian economic development, as he casts a bright future on the prospects ahead. In his…
Renton, who was abused at prep school, did an extensive research and study of enduring culture of abuse at Britain’s elite schools. Alex Renton’s trenchant new book about boarding schools, narrating stories of institutionalised humiliation and rampant physical and psychological abuse are far worse than what an inmate might expect in jail. According to Renton…
Artificial Intelligence could beat human creativity, and in future years several people are bound to spend sleepless nights thinking about, what happens when machines make human creativity obsolete. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence where a machine capable of beating the human at this most cerebral game. Garry Kasparov, one…
The Sunday Times, before Murdoch bought it, was a world leader in investigative journalism, innovation and integrity, although the paper still commits good journalism. Sir Harold Evans the former editor of The Sunday Times, has a benign proprietor ( Roy Thompson) who exempted Evans’ domain from his robust views on profit. Evans always employed…
Peter Marshall’s generously written people’s history and a reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation, as his narrative avoids irregularities in the story and explains why Reformation was neither “just about religion” nor “ really about politics.” Protestantisation was adopted by English Monarchs as an established faith make enemies at home and abroad,…
The Golden era of adventurous travel has come to an end, is the two tales of a city, and its historical race to reach one of the world’s most mythologised places. Timbuktu is a tantalising paradise, where even the slaves wore gold. In the eighteenth century, a series of explorers in the name of discovery…
Alexis Jenni’s historical novel gives graphic explanation on the art of French art of warfare, the legacy of France’s violent colonial past and dramatises the 1990s Lyon : the occupied and liberated France of 1943 to 1945; the savage Indo-Chinese and Algerian insurgencies of the 1950s. Its English translation is done when France’s imperial…
Booker-shortlisted writer, Michele Roberts’s latest 14th novel, pays homage to all London’s streetwalkers and literal writer from the likes of Dickens, Woolf. In 1851 Joseph Benson is hired by journalist and social reformer Henry Mayhew, to research for his groundbreaking newspaper articles about the working classes that will later form his magnum opus, London Labour…
Whenever there is a financial crisis, Economists does a forensics and post-mortem of past financial crises to discover the clues as to how the next one might occur and what you can learn from them. In the latest book by former Securities and Exchange Commission regulator and Treasury department advisor Richard Bookstabe, reveals how the…
Stuart Hall catalogues his experiences that shaped his intellectual, political and theoretical work in his new book said: “ Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial”. Stuart Hall an immigrant intellectual, one of the most prominent and influential scholars, and public intellectual of his generation, who is well placed as outsiders insiders,…