BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Sama, Dama, Danda, Bheda: Ancient Indian Wisdom for Strategy, Leadership, Power and Statecraft from Chanakya’s Arthashastra | Negotiation, Influence and Decision-Making by Ami Ganatra

ABOUT THE BOOK

Ancient wisdom. Modern strategy. A powerful playbook for
navigating power―and using it responsibly.

Sama, Dama, Danda, Bheda brings Chanakya’s timeless wisdom to modern readers, offering insights for engaging with people, institutions, competition and complex situations in an ever-changing world.

Drawing on the Arthashastra, this accessible and practical guide reveals how these ancient strategies can sharpen decision-making across leadership, business, governance and geopolitics. At its heart is a compelling question: how can power be exercised effectively while remaining aligned with Dharma? Part cultural classic, part strategist’s handbook, the book transforms Chanakya’s ideas into tools for understanding influence, negotiation, authority and human behaviour.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ami Ganatra is an alumna of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), a management professional, certified yoga instructor, and a student of Sanskrit and Indian knowledge systems. Through her work, Ami combines rigorous engagement with India's classical traditions with an accessible contemporary voice, bringing the wisdom and complexity of the epics to a new generation of readers.

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BOOKS OF THE WEEK

The Land of Monsoons and Martyrs: A New History Of Bangladesh by Salil Tripathi

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Between March and December 1971, the Pakistani army committed atrocities on an unprecedented scale in the country’s eastern wing. Pakistani troops and their collaborators were responsible for countless deaths and cases of rape. Clearly, religion alone wasn’t enough to keep Pakistan’s two halves united.

From that brutal violence, Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation, but the wounds have continued to fester. The gruesome assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman—the country’s charismatic first prime minister—and most of his family, the coups and counter-coups which followed, accompanied by long years of military rule were individually and collectively responsible for the country’s inability to come to grips with the legacy of the liberation war.

Around five decades later came the catastrophic fall of Mujib’s daughter, Hasina Wajed, who ruled the country for twenty years. Bloody protests erupted across Bangladesh in 2024, when Hasina reinstated quotas for government jobs, the majority of which benefited the progeny of freedom fighters. Over a thousand dissenting civilians were killed when she unleashed the security forces on them. Within a month, she was forced to flee to India in a helicopter, marking an ignominious end to her career.

In this revised and updated edition, Salil Tripathi travels the length and breadth of the country, probing its trauma through interviews with hundreds of Bangladeshis. The Land of Monsoons & Martyrs, which was originally published as The Colonel Who Would Not Repent, offers the reader an unforgettable portrait of a nation whose political history since Independence has been marked more by tragedy than triumph.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Salil Tripathi was born in the city once known as Bombay and studied at New Era School and Sydenham College, and later at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in the United States. An award-winning journalist, his books include Offence: The Hindu Case, Detours: Songs of the Open Road, and The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community, which was long-listed for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize and received an honourable mention at the History Literature Festival in 2026. The Colonel Who Would Not Repent, the earlier edition of this book, was long-listed for the non-fiction prize at the Tata Literature Live festival in Mumbai in 2015. With the artist Shilpa Gupta, he has co-edited For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, a collection of writings about prison. As a foreign correspondent and human rights researcher, he has reported out of Southeast Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. He has chaired PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee and is a member of its board. He has also chaired juries for writing about human rights, including the Disturbing the Peace Prize at the Vaclav Havel Center. He lives in New York.

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BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Legal Eagles-Demy HB: Stories of the Top Seven Indian Lawyers by Indu Bhan 

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Indian judicial system has garnered worldwide fame through its historical and remarkable judgements and the hard work of its judges and lawyers rarely catches the glaze of common public. Legal Eagle tries to bridge this gap. Indu Bhan?s 'Legal Eagles: Stories of top seven Indian lawyers? traces the story of the top seven lawyers in India. Lawyers, as we commonly perceive, are not just shrewd intellectuals but much more. It takes more than just intelligence to become a successful lawyer. It takes years of practice, extensive studies and professionalism which set the absolutely outstanding lawyers from the general ones. Their life and career graph is full of crusts and troughs and this book gives an insight into it.

Legal Eagles is an exciting read for all the budding lawyers and for all those who are interested in knowing about the life and struggle of great lawyers and how they achieve success in life through sheer grit and hard work . The top seven lawyers chosen by Indu Bhan as the subjects of her book are well known lawyers and have prolific personality worthy to be written about. The seven lawyers whose life and career has found a mention in the book are Harish Salve, Prashant Bhushan, Rohinton Nariman, Mukul Rohatgi, Abhishek Sangvi, CA Sundaram and Arvind Datar. A common link between all seven of them is that they all have been or are applying their trade in the Supreme Court of India. While some of them like Prashant Bhushan, Rohinton Nariman and Mukul Rohatgi carried on their family legacy of being lawyer, other like Harish Salve and Arvind Datar accidentally landed upon this profession and are now the stalwarts of legal practice. Legal Eagles is filled with several details of high profile cases handled by these lawyers like Coalgate, Vodafone Tax Case etc. and also explains the psychological and emotional impact that these cases had on them. Not just their professional career, but we also catch a glimpse of their personal life in this book. We get a personal view of the life of these seven legal eagles of India as the author talks about their background, mentors, turning points in their life, what was their way to success, their struggles, daily routine etc. 

About the author

Indu Bhan is a special correspondent at ?The Indian Express? and one of their leading columnists. The book?s foreword has been written by Justice R.M. Lodha, Former Chief Justice of India and critically acclaimed by Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister of India.

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