In 1928, when Mother Teresa was only eighteen, Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. From 1931 to 1948, Mother Teresa taught in Calcutta, the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent made such deep impressions on her that in 1948 she received…
Adam Roberts spent five years travelling from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, Bengal to Gujarat and encountered power brokers, multi-billionaires farmers, tech innovators, prime ministers, travelling salesmen, pilgrims from the world’s largest democracy and he asked them how India can become a truly great economic power, more influential abroad and stable at home. Through his book he…
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited history museum in Beijing that surveyed the foreign abuses beginning with opium wars before moving to glories of “New China” and the “reform and opening up” post-Mao Zedong’s death, that created the world’s second- largest economy. He said: “In my view to realise the great renewal of the Chinese nation…
Sociologist, Donna Freitas after interviewing 200 students from 13 US colleges about their social media addictions, writes in her latest book, “Students express near universal adoration of Snapchat. They can say dumb things, and take goofy, ugly photographs and parade them to other people, and can be sad, mean and negative.” Social media has…
Business journalist William Cohan asks if the regulatory body go too far in response to the 2008 financial crisis on the US financial sector, especially the Dodd-Frank Act which limited Wall Street’s ability to serve its customers. Enhanced capital requirements and compliance burdens are crippling the supply of credit to consumers and businesses and thwarting…
What would George Orwell make of the series of conflicts entirely bloodless between American President Donald Trump and the sections of the American media and the so-called “Fake news”. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell expressed in one of his images, that of the whale and you could understand the society or the world being swallowed…
Cordelia’s new book “ Testosterone Rex”, explains men and women’s investment in their off-spring was fundamentally unequal, hence they need different approaches to reproductive success, as the sexes evolved different kinds of brains and desperate natures, with men being more promiscuous, risk-taking and competitive, and women more caring and nurturing. Testosterone are produced for male…
Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister by Rosa Prince, Biteback £20, 416 pages. Theresa May, Britain’s second female prime minister has collected several nick names during her short tenure in Downing Street, including safe hands. May has been a Conservative MP for two decades and people and politicians, applaud her resolve. She has a strict…
Uber and Airbnb have been unleashing a new wave of productivity helped by technology to further human connection. Their critics see them as ruthless and callously sowing disruption and treading on the backs of drivers in the case of Uber or local communities in Airbnb’s case. The Upstarts, the most detailed investigation into the early…
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu, Chatto & Windus £16.99, 336 pages. This is not April Fool, but a fact that Xiaolu actually on 1st April 1992, boarded a flight from Beijing to London against all odds at the age of 29. She was a film-maker who failed…