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Here is a fresh list of books this week, from different genres. Happy Reading!

Triple Talaq: Examining Faith

By Salman Khurshid

Salman Khurshid’s book is an attempt to make sense of the various pronouncements in the Shayara Bano verdict and also the Muslim law of divorce. For a small volume of about 230 pages, it not only reproduces substantial portions of the minority and majority judgments but also contains an enlightening analysis of the verdict.

Read full review here.

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism

By Yanis Varoufakis

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, Yanis Varoufakis, an economist who has served as Greece’s finance minister, achieves a difficult feat: he offers a potted history of capitalism and demystifies the building blocks of economics such as debt, money, commodity, and exchange value, without recourse to economic jargon.

Read the full review here.

Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Diane Atkinson

Diane Atkinson dives straight into her subject with such ferocious detail that readers could feel weighed down by the 650 pages in their hands — a march-past of briefly introduced names from the suffragette movement runs on through page xii as one paragraph. But a deeper acquaintance reveals that historian Atkinson, author of other books on remarkable women, including three volumes on suffragettes, is a masterful and subtly witty arranger of facts.

Read the full review here.

From Command to Empathy: Using EQ in the Age of Disruption

By Avik Chanda and Suman Ghose

A considerable amount of quality business literature on developing empathy and emotional competencies is already available, but authors Avik Chanda and Suman Ghose add in this book relatable case studies picked from the Indian corporate context. Both draw from their personal experiences of working in Fortune 500 companies and with top global consultants. The book is directed essentially at individuals but speaks to organisations as well.

Read the full review here.

 

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