カテゴリー: Books
Fifty years of documenting Sindh’s visual history has culminated in a new project for Nasreen and Hasan AskariNasreen Askari had no interest in fashion when she was growing up. “I was deeply ugly, slightly sporty and slightly nerdy. That summed me up,”…
The Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing’s images record China’s rise from self-imposed ruin to today’s superpower. His new book presents scenes of hope, hardship and change under Communist party rule. A Life in a Sea of Red is publis…
Patriotic myths are exploded in a vivid pageturner, which considers the Company as a forerunner of modern multinationals, ‘too big to fail’About a century ago, a series of giant murals was unveiled in the Palace of Westminster depicting the “Building o…
A welcome critique of global finance is admirably angry but fails to properly identify the crisis brewing in BeijingThe great dividing line in economics – ever since its birth – is how to think about money. Are money and the financial systems through w…
A blistering polemic exposes the country’s malaise under Narendra ModiAlmost a decade ago, I travelled to a small town in Gujarat, a state in the west of India, to hear Narendra Modi speak to a rally. It started late in the evening and a crowd had alre…
New Amazon and Netflix dramas take in themes that India’s established cinema rarely touches, with millions of potential subscribers available ‘The three big ‘no’s in Indian cinema are sexuality, religion and politics,” says Anurag Kashyap. “And in Sacr…