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…
The tragic suicide of a student in Hyderabad, in India, is a symptom of a greater malaise that besets higher education. The spontaneous reverberations that this has created across the campuses in the country is a symptom of much human energy lost in anything but student learning. This is a time to introspect and act.…
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…
Sandra Navidi’s skilful, illuminating account with both professional and personal insights into the Global financial system and the human networks that reinforces it. Super Hubs takes the lid off the financial barons, their elite networks and their human endeavour which rules our economic system and the society. In the last chapter, she explains the “monoculture”,…
Dava Sobel, the bestselling author of Longitude, explains elegantly the story of the female “computers” and their painstaking tabulation who worked on the classification of stars through the latter half of 19th and first half of the 20th century. Astronomer Dr Henry Draper, and his heiress wife Anna in 1882 have invited an eminent gathering…
Peter Stothard explains portraits of four courtiers of Margaret Thatcher when she was prime minister. He talks about Seneca, the wealthy Roman writer, philosopher and adviser to Emperor Nero, in the first century AD. He had watched the destruction of the Wapping site where Times and the Times Literary Supplement had their most difficult period.…
Hong Kong resident David Bandurski went behind the billboard hoardings displaying “China Dream” and the luxurious lifestyles and reveals the corruption, village slums and deceit involved persuading the poor to give way to high-rises for the wealthy and the disappearance of Chinese culture and its ancient communities. With the advent of construction sites several cranes has…
The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are notorious for their technique of assessing candidates, professors, of course, tell just how smart you are. John Farndon’s book is a collection of 75 of the most drilling questions taken from actual admission interviews and gives full answers to all variety of question on histories, philosophies, sciences and arts. First of…
Byjus, India’s leading education technology provider, has raised $50m from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Sequoia, Sofina, Lightspeed and Times Internet venture capital partners to fund its expansion plans. Byjus founder and CEO Byju Raveendran hails from Azhikode in Kannur, Kerala, said “ We will deploy the fund to fuel international expansion and inspire additional funding…