Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle With China for My Land and My People
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Published: March 2025
Amid uncertainty over the Dalai Lama’s succession and its geopolitical implications, Voice for the Voiceless becomes a timely read to understand the Tibetan people’s struggle for independence and the evolution of their demands over time. The book provides a firsthand account of the struggle from the Dalai Lama himself, detailing his past work, the situation today, and his hope for the future.
The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon
Ankit Panda
Published: March 2025
A greater number of nuclear players, the advent of new technologies, increasingly loose nuclear rhetoric, and a decline in arms control efforts—these factors may sound like a recipe for disaster. Yet, as this book argues, they are defining features of the new nuclear age confronting the world today. How did we arrive at this point, and how can states navigate such complex and dangerous dynamics? The New Nuclear Age provides critical insights into these pressing questions.
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Karen Hao
Published: May 2025
In this eye-opening account, Karen Hao, an MIT-educated engineer, journalist, and AI insider, throws light on the promise of AI versus its reality. She argues that companies like OpenAI are new forms of empire, given their appropriation of resources and exploitation of labour, particularly in the Global South, among other factors. What follows from this premise is a brilliant exposé of how the AI industry operates and the human and environmental costs behind the AI gold rush.
The End of the Chinese Century: How Xi Jinping Lost the Belt and Road Initiative
Bertil Lintner
Published: October 2024
With states like Sri Lanka caught in debt traps and the violent opposition to China-backed projects in Pakistan, where does China’s much-touted Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stand? Swedish journalist and Asia expert Bertil Lintner provides critical answers in this book, taking readers through the history of the BRI, its performance and future, and where India fits into the picture.
Speaking With Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism
Ramachandra Guha
Published: October 2024
Challenging the ideas that environmentalism is a luxury developing countries cannot afford and that the roots of Indian environmentalism can only be traced to as recently as the 1970s, Speaking With Nature takes a long view of environmental thought in India. Ramachandra Guha illuminates the ideas of ten prominent individuals, including Rabindranath Tagore, J.C. Kumarappa and Gandhian activist Madeleine Slade/Mirabehn, who wrote insightfully about environmental abuse and humanity’s relationship with nature.