HT Picks; New Reads
2 years, 6 months ago

HT Picks; New Reads

Hindustan Times  

How iconic entrepreneurs got it right Our pick of good reads includes a book on starting a company, a biography of an almost forgotten scientist, and a collection of Indian tales. Startup Compass offers advice on starting and growing a company, shared in a lecture series at IIM Ahmedabad and over extensive interviews by fifteen iconic Indian entrepreneurs. * A life of Jagadish Chandra Bose 477pp, ₹999;Aleph Jagadish Chandra Bose, also called the “father of radio science”’, was one of the most prominent figures of India’s scientific community. The first in-depth biography of the scientist written in the twenty-first century, Unsung Genius: A Life of Jagadish Chandra Bose paints a striking portrait of Bose — the man, the nationalist, the scientist, and inventor par excellence whom the world has almost forgotten.

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