Ram Madhav

There can be no better book to understand the 20th century politics of Europe and the West and their priorities for the ensuing century than to go through the collection of articles in this excellent edition of Foreign Affairs magazine. It is a compilation of articles by very eminent intellectuals like Harold Laski, Isaiah Berlin, […]

This Radha Kumud Mookerji’s 1921 vintage book was republished by Bibliolife. Very informative book on nationalism, patriotism and political ideals embedded in ancient Hindu scriptures and Sanskrit literature. Must read small book for Indic scholars and enthusiasts.

The Levelling is an excellent, thought-provoking analysis of the future in store for different countries and continents. Michael o’ Sullivan insists that the age of globalisation has ended and a new world order is emerging with newer challenges. He takes us back to the Levellers movement of the 17th century Britain to engender ideas that […]

‘They Snatched My Playground’ is a superb personal narrative of a journalist-turned BJP politician from Kashmir Valley Khalid Jehangir about his life in the Valley, it’s terrorism, it’s politics and about the silent majority whose voices are hardly heard or whose stories hardly spoken about. Khalid had a distinct advantage in life in the sense […]

Nada Bakos’ book The Targeter was a greatly publicised one before its release earlier this year. A good one with information about CIA’s efforts at Langley as well as in Baghdad to track down and neutralise one of the world’s most wanted AQ terrorists and in a way the father of ISIS by name Abu […]

Koenraad Elst never disappoints. This book is no exception. You may agree or disagree with his views and conclusions, but you cannot but read him. Like his other works starting from the 90’s writings on Ayodhya, this book too is rich in content and engrossing in arguments. Koenraad has a style that is both provocative […]

I introduced the first volume of Those Eighteen Days earlier. The second volume is also no less significant and rich in content and narrative. Dr Narayanacharya takes us through the part of the War that became Adharmic and drifted into an absolute horror. All rules of the game change and Sri Krishna takes pains to […]

Read several books on Mossad, the omnipotent Israeli intelligence service. But this one, ‘Rise and Kill First’ by journalist Ronen Bergman is markedly different. It doesn’t romanticise, nor does it portray the agency as superhuman and invincible. It instead presents a very realistic, almost day-to-day account of Mossad and its sister agencies in Israel. It […]

Excellent narration of the details of the 18-day Mahabharata War. Dr. Narayanacharyulu, an eminent Vedic scholar from Karnataka and a Doctorate in Modern English Literature renders it in a gripping conversational style providing details as though it were an eyewitness account. Of particular significance in the first volume are the chapters dealing with Bhishma’s dilemmas […]

Interesting book passionately arguing for the US to reacquire ‘tragic sensibility’, meaning, it should be ready to lead the struggles for maintaining a peaceful, liberal and democratic international order irrespective of the costs involved. In his inaugural address John F Kennady made a commitment that his generation of Americans, “tempered by war, disciplined by a […]