The Empire fallacy
Pankaj Mishra’s book From the Ruins of Empire is perhaps the most important book in a long time, for India in particular, and Asia in general, as we choose our foreign and economic/industrialisation policies for a new era.
How cosmopolitan Asia came to life
The economist John Maynard Keynes, writing of the dangers of men with ideas, was echoing lessons long learnt by the West.