Your reading list for the week

Here is a fresh list of books, from different genres, to provide an exciting week ahead. Happy Reading!

Hit Refresh

Satya Nadella

In his debut book

Hit Refresh , Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella blends autobiography, biography of the company and techno futurism, but ethos, empathy, empowerment and democratisation are its keywords. Nadella sounds passionate about two topics — leadership and transformation, and he makes a strong case for a new social contract that must guide the values of the evolving, nay exploding, digital era.

Read the review here.

Asia Reborn

Prasenjit K. Basu

Coming down heavily on western colonial powers, the writer analyses how the nations which came under British colonialism in the first half of the century remained economically downtrodden whereas the influence of Japan in the countries which she occupied such as Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria rose to become economic giants because the Japanese encouraged programmes in literacy, infrastructural development and investment in modernised heavy industry.

Read the review here.

The Broken Ladder: The Paradox and the Potential of India’s One Billion;

Anirudh Krishna

A boy struggles to complete high school — and he is the first person in his village to do so. But even a year later, when he still cannot find other employment, he ends up digging for sand on a dry riverbed. A woman dairy farmer breaks her hip while milking a cow and is forced to sell her silver anklets to pay for substandard medical care. These are some of the heartbreaking, infuriating stories of India’s one billion that we encounter in Anirudh Krishna’s new book.

Read the review here.

Unstoppable: My Life So Far

Maria Sharapova

For someone who is not a tennis fan, Unstoppable - a memoir from Maria Sharapova - can be a surprisingly compelling read not for its prose, but the story — a rags-to-riches tale with a twist. “This is a story about sacrifice, what you have to give up,” the athlete writes. “But it’s also just the story of a girl and her father and their crazy adventure.”

Read the review here.