BOOK REVIEWS


Akshay Naik 05 October 2026
Consumer law in India has travelled a long way since the enactment of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. What began as a relatively straightforward mechanism for consumers seeking redress against defective goods and deficient services has developed into an extensive body of jurisprudence...

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Ritu Dewan 28 September 2026
The essence of Reetika Khera’s remarkable book, Freebies or Rights: Understanding Social Policy in India is contained in the Preamble of the Constitution of India which, in fact, she ends with:   ‘To secure to all its citizens Justice, social, economic and political, Liberty of thought,...

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In the late-19th century, the world experienced something never seen before or since: a continuous fall in prices across the globe. The slide began with the financial crash of 1873 and lasted for nearly a quarter-century. Before the 1930s, this period of deflation, bankruptcies and instability...

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SY Quraishi insists his book is not a memoir. He is right; it is even better. Traditional autobiographies of public men in India tend to follow a predictable arc: hardship, struggle, ascent, vindication. Instead, Mr Quraishi offers a hundred select two-page episodes of his life — thoughtful,...

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Sanober Keshwaar 07 July 2026
Whenever a creative work – whether literary, cinematic, artistic – has to be shared, disseminated, sold, we have to contend with intellectual property rights. And then the content creators like musicians, authors, poets, film-makers, photographers, designers and others enter the complex world...

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Dr Hina Pandey 25 May 2026
At first glance, Glocal Terror in South Asia: Tracing the Roots in Geopolitics and the Tragedy of Afghanistan appears to be another account of terrorism centred on Afghanistan and its long conflict. But Anju Gupta’s book is far more than a chronology of terror attacks or militant movements....

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Aditya Joby 16 February 2026
Reading Our Rights: Essays on Law, Justice and the Constitution feels like encountering a jurist’s perspective on the Constitution in action. While most people first engage with Fundamental Rights and the Preamble in school civics classes, or encounter the Constitution through political...

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Urvish Kothari 13 August 2025
Like most Indians, my love for sports was pretty much limited to cricket. I was part of that generation of fans who were drawn more to Kapil Dev’s rugged charisma than Sunil Gavaskar’s polished finesse. Yet, PT Usha remained part of my world, shaped as much by her achievements as by the time in...

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Vivek Bhandari 05 March 2025
As with much else in the world in 2025, the world of education—and more specifically design education (which is perhaps the most inter-disciplinary of all learning fields)—is in a state of flux. Debates about artificial intelligence, climate change, identity politics and the future of the...

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As researchers and techies continue to innovate, the increased use of progressive web apps (PWAs) and WebAPKs (Android package kits generated by the Chrome browser) are turning into powerful tools that bridge the gap between web and mobile applications, offering significant advantages for both...

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Moneylife does not usually review books of fiction, so why is Kill the Lawyers: Small Tales of Big Law an exception? Not because of the twists in its fascinating tales that make you laugh or the sharp prose, but because it is a must-read for India's newly-minted market mavens who are usually...

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G Ramesh 16 November 2023
Professor R Vaidyanathan is a crusader against black money and more than an academic researcher. He has been writing on this subject for more than a decade and has been trying to sensitise policymakers, bureaucrats and citizens. His interest in this field started way back in 2000, as he...

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Murali Neelakantan  and   Gautam Narayan 02 November 2023
In their recently released study of the inner workings of the Supreme Court, oft touted as the ‘most powerful court in the world’, Aparna Chandra, Sital Kalantry and William Hubbard have attempted a data-driven deep dive into the functioning of the Court that sits at the pinnacle of the vast...

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Sanjay Hegde 01 November 2023
What is constitutionalism? In the 500 pages of his compendious tome, Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law: In a Theatre of Democracy, justice Sikri takes the readers on an illuminating journey through the complex and dynamic journey of the development of constitutionalism and the rule of law...

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If you have been meditating in a cave or under a rock, or just been in a bubble due to the pandemic, you may have missed the news of children dying every now and then of cough syrup. We have known, for more than 50 years now, that diethylene glycol (DEG) is a fatal contaminant in cough syrups...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 July 2022
'The Scam: From Harshad Mehta To Ketan Parekh', one of the most thrilling non-fiction business books ever written in India by Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal, is now available in Marathi. The book, translated into Marathi by Atul Kahate and Poonam Chhatre, was launched in Pune on Friday by...

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Harsh A Desai 08 June 2022
My greatest cavil when I finished the book, The Commissioner for Lost Causes, published by Penguin Viking, was that there was not more of it. My greatest regret was that Arun Shourie had disregarded his well-wishers by not including several episodes which they suggested be included. Well,...

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Ravi Nene 19 April 2021
Every automobile—small or large, historic or modern—has its own personality and place in the motoring universe. India’s automotive history is replete with the finest examples that straddle generations and genres. Gautam Sen, the ‘automobile man’ who spearheaded motoring journalism in India,...

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Harsh Desai 24 November 2020
Arun Shourie’s  Preparing for Death is both a meditation on death as also a handbook on dying.  It is theoretical as well as practical.  Being an exceptional storyteller, Arun Shourie has deftly woven together a book telling stories from old Hindu and Buddhist scriptures as well as...

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Arunima Haldar 08 September 2020
How do family businesses create a legacy?    One-third of the 1,000 largest companies in the world are family businesses.   Some 70% of the BSE listed Indian companies are family controlled and account for two-thirds of India’s gross domestic product (GDP).   However,...

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