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Book ReviewWhen the Watchmen Break the Rules: A Spymaster’s Unflinching Audit of the Indian State
There is a distinct aroma of stale file dust, high-stakes intercept transcripts, and midnight cabinet briefings that lingers around books written by retired...
Book ReviewBehind Closed Doors in Beijing: The Secret History of the Asian Century
If you rely on nightly news bulletins, the story of India and China is simple, breathless, and written in permanent ink. It is...
Book ReviewA life in secret
RAM Nath Kao (1918-2002) is not one of those Indian officers who can be easily forgotten by bureaucrats, politicians and even journalists, despite...
Book ReviewFrom behind the steel frame
THE British East India Company came to this subcontinent to trade and provide lucrative returns to its shareholders in London. In the process,...
Book ReviewClassified reality
IN the era of star whistleblowers such as Julian Assange and Edward Snowden and massive leaks or releases of classified, often highly disturbing...
Book ReviewSpies who came in from the cold
THE book, jointly authored by India’s former Indian Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) chief Amarjit Singh Dulat and the Pakistan’s former Inter Services...
Book ReviewBook Review : A miserable failure
IT’S ironical that a book that aims to create a myth and living legend of an individual itself has seedlings, even large plants,...
Book ReviewBook Review : Challenges of old age care
THE sinister shadow of urbanisation, industrialisation, and atomisation of families has not only deprived the elders of the societal reverence, traditional family love...
Book ReviewBook Review : Understanding self
SINCE most of the times we completely identify with our mind and thoughts, we fail to observe and be aware of our thinking...
Book ReviewBook Review : Compelling study
THE Indian Parliament – Beyond the Seal and Signature of Democracy is a very fascinating book on the working and the progress of...
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