Christopher Leonard, the New York Times business journalist, infiltrates the Federal Reserve to show how its policies steered by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income equality and put America’s economic stability at risk. The press credited the Fed when the economy grew and also when the economy imploded in 2008,…
Once upon a time there were storytellers who wrote folk tales. Award-winning author, Nicholas Jubber reveals all the serendipity at the heart of what we think of as eternal, tales of neglected story-tellers, lives of the dreamers and fascinatingly explores the land from which the great fairy stories emerged, making the stories more resonant, powerful…
Award-winning financial historian delves into character-driven story of venture capital and the world it made. “Innovations rarely came from experts” Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk was not in the auto industry. When it comes to innovation, the future cannot be predicted, it can only be discovered. Most attempts at discovery fail, but a few succeed at…
The ancient Greek city of Athens the birthplace of Western civilization, and dominated by the pillars and pediments of the Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, goddess of Wisdom, from Runciman Award winner Bruce Clark. Bruce’s tale of a city that occupies a unique place in the cultural memory of the West. Reforms of…
Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, who ruled as president of France from 1848 to 1852, then as emperor until 1870, when his regime collapsed after a crushing military defeat at the hands of Prussia. In the second half of the 20th century, Napoleon’s reputation underwent a modest rehabilitation, as he won praise of France’s…
Karimeen from the backwaters of Kerala flavoured by the sweetness of the freshwater and saltiness of the seawater, smeared in garam masala, shallow fried in coconut oil with 2 table spoons of ginger past, 1 table spoon of red chilli powder and black pepper powder, 1 table spoon of lemon juice and half a table…
Uttkarsh Chaurasia, team leader, Rishabh Dhenkawat, Aditi Katoch, Mohammad Nomann, Navdeep Singh Rathore, Sitaram Rathi and Rishabh Verma, the six-member team from the National Institute of Technology won the Smart India Hackaton (SIH-2020) by creating solutions to provide a “second eye” to blind people using artificial intelligence. The Smart India Hackathon organised every year by…
Roberto Calasso weaves together and connects stories of ancient world with the thinking of Kafka, Weil, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard which promises and separation from one of the founding texts of Western civilisation, but omission of Hindu literature. These tales of grace and guilt, of the chosen and the damned, cast many Biblical figures and indeed…
How a broken corporate culture paved the way for catastrophe, with race to beat competition and reward top executives, Boeing skimped on testing, pressured employees to meet unrealistic deadlines, and convinced and forced regulators to put planes into service without properly equipping them or their pilots for flight, Peter Robinson, award-winning reporter for Bloomberg, looks…
“The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan” assess the West’s similarly failed approach to Afghanistan in military, diplomatic, political and developmental terms and reveals the west’s failure to understand Afghanistan and the ties that bind Afghanistan, and its people underpins the west’s 20-year struggle there. Building on record of the past starts from the first…