Ashok Alexander’s ‘A Stranger Truth’
ChrestomatherIn 2003 Ashok Alexander left a top job at McKinsey & Co. and took on the task of setting up the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s India AIDS…
‘Swerving to Solitude’
Nice to receive a copy of the poet Keki Daruwalla's new novel, 'Swerving to Solitude: letters to Mama.' It's an interesting and idiosyncratic meditation on history with some evocative scenes…
‘What’s happening to the weather?’
Since the publication of 'The Great Derangement' I've received many reports of freakish weather from friends and readers. One such arrived on May 31, from Turin. It was from …
Ravi Agrawal’s ‘India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy ‘. A Review
Ravi Agrawal (who I’ve known since he was an undergraduate at Harvard) served as CNN’s bureau chief in New Delhi from 2014 to 2017. Before that he was the…