12 non-fiction books of 2018 you need to add to your reading list
6 years, 3 months ago

12 non-fiction books of 2018 you need to add to your reading list

India Today  

Time flies and here we are at the end of another year. Focussing on how the smart phone is enabling access to education; creating job markets; redefining traditional gender relations, marital and family structure; bringing banking to the remotest alongside a growing communication and infrastructure development, small entrepreneurs, the books examines fast moving class mobility and its relationship with India’s social fabric. 'Three Times Unlucky' by Salman Khurshid This book is the story of the judgment of the Supreme Court in Shayara Bano v Union of India or the Triple Talaq’ judgment. The book examines that the practice in most Muslim countries is to treat Triple Talaq’ not as three pronouncements in one sitting counting as a valid irrevocable divorce, but rather as one pronouncement. Through the lens of Ujjivan, the proposed book establishes that benefits of the Grameen model can equally be realized by India’s urban poor as much as its rural counterparts.

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