11 must-read politics books like The Art Of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Information Warfare Shapes Your World by Shivam Shankar Singh

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The Art Of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Information Warfare Shapes Your World

By: Shivam Shankar Singh

4.13

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

HOW DO POLITICIANS IN TODAY'S world attain power? How do nations become powerful? Why do human bein…

If you liked the politics plot in The Art Of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Information Warfare Shapes Your World by Shivam Shankar Singh , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Everybody Loves a Good Drought

By: Palagummi Sainath , P. Sainath

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

The human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry langu… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

4. The Bastard of Istanbul

By: Elif Shafak

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of t… read more

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5. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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6. Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom

By: Sanjeev Sanyal

4.63

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The official narrative of India's freedom struggle has almost entirely been about the non-violent p… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. The Magicians of Mazda

By: Ashwin Sanghi

3.98

Format: 492 pages, Paperback

YATHA AHU VAIRYO ATHA RATUSH ASHAT CHIT HACHA VANGHEUSH... AS THE MASTER, SO IS THE JUDGE TO BE … read more

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8. The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State

By: Josy Joseph

4.39

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘They were not expected to behave like the terrorists they were hunting. Even in the thickest fog o… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

By: Eric Jorgenson

4.44

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

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10. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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11. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

By: Cal Newport

4.06

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"

-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

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12. Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

By: Farah Bashir

4.10

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Rumours of Spring is the unforgettable account of Farah Bashir's adolescence spent in Srinagar in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The house I would go back to would be bereft of her presence but filled with her memories. Our home, the little monument of memory."

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"I thought maybe if I looked ugly and less pleasant, the men would not look at me and I'd be safe. I wouldn't wash my face for days. I didn't want to look attractive in any way, at all, lest it invite…"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"...the constant shifting of power had done its damage. I didn't know then, but it was the beginning of an apathy for my own self that would last for a long time. Our lives were controlled from elsewh…"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"Why are people okay with not walking? Does Father not miss his daily walks to the shrine and his shop? What about Mother and her long walk to her parents' home? Does Bobeh not get bored now that she …"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

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13. Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924

By: Vikram Sampath

4.58

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in I… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"In a rare approach of postulating a broad humanitarian acceptance, Vinayak always emphasized that he or his associates must not hate the British; that they should be considered enemies only till the …"

-Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924

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14. Let's Talk Mutual Funds: A Systematic, Smart Way to Make Them Work for You

By: Monika Halan

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

In the past two decades, mutual funds have emerged as the preferred investment option for Indians. … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity by Gloria Mark

15. Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

By: Gloria Mark

3.53

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD, WALL STREET JOURNAL , NEW YORK TIMES AND MORE **A COS… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"…it is time to rethink our relationship with our personal technologies. We need to reframe our goal from that of maximizing human productivity with our devices, to instead using them in maintaining a…"

-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

"We know from project management that there is usually slippage, and tasks almost always take longer than what one envisions. There is also no room for fitting human well-being into task schedules. We…"

-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

"Design your day thinking that you have limited mental resources, knowing that taking time to replenish them will not only help you be less stressed and better able to resist distractions, but also mo…"

-Gloria Mark, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

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16. Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji

By: Manu S. Pillai

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Manu S. Pillai narrates the story of the Deccan from the close of the thirteenth century to the daw… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India by Vijay Gokhale

17. The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India

By: Vijay Gokhale

4.48

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

'Essential reading for all those interested in how India will deal with its greatest strategic chal… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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18. The Far Field

By: Madhuri Vijay

3.88

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madh… read more

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"I suspect the truth was that, like so many who cloak themselves in mistrust and call it independence, I was merely a coward."

-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

"I had yet to understand just how many shapes a person’s desire could take, and how few of them, in the end, took the shape of the body."

-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

"...cynical and hardened as I believed myself to be at twenty-four, I had never that pity might, in fact, be just another facet of love."

-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

"This country, already ancient when I was born in 1982, has changed every instant I’ve been alive. Titanic events have ripped it apart year after year, each time rearranging it along slightly differen…"

-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field

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19. RSS: The Long and the Short of It

By: Devanura Mahadeva

3.94

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER FROM ONE OF KANNADA LITERATURE’S TALLEST FIGURES What is the Rashtriya Sw… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet China 1949-62

By: Nirupama Rao

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In the India-China relationship, the past shadows the present. It shapes current policy options and… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. The Art Of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Information Warfare Shapes Your World

By: Shivam Shankar Singh

4.13

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

HOW DO POLITICIANS IN TODAY'S world attain power? How do nations become powerful? Why do human bein… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

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