THE OIL BEHEMOTH – REVIEW OF STEVE COLL’S “PRIVATE EMPIRE”

Two-time Pulitzer winner Steve Coll has written a goldmine of a book called Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (2012). Indeed this book has bagged the prestigious FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for 2012.

FROM GONDWANA TO GURGAON – REVIEW OF SANJEEV SANYAL’S “LAND OF THE SEVEN RIVERS”

I remember how amazed I was when I first saw an aerial shot of the Taj Mahal. It offered an entirely different perspective, a more provocative and panoramic one, than the static frontal view. In a similar way, Sanjeev Sanyal’s Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India’s Geography offers a fresh view of India’s contours over the ages.