New Arrivals in Habitat Library & Research Centre

The following titles will be on display on the New Arrivals shelf until January 6, 2026. You are welcome to reserve a book, if you wish to borrow any of them. Reservations will be entertained on a first-come, first served basis and do remember that if you have reserved more than one title, you will be given preference only on one. May we remind you that now you can also reserve the books through WEBOPAC from our website: www.indiahabitat.org

Autobiography, Biography and Memoir



Doing the right thing: learnings from Ratan Tata / Bhat, Harish.
Gurugram: Penguin Random House, 2025



The chief minister and the spy: an unlikely friendship / Dulat, A.S.
New Delhi: Juggernaut, 2025

Artificial Intelligence



Empire of AI: inside the reckless race for total domination / Hao, Karen.
London: Penguin Random House, 2025



Why machines learn: the elegant maths behind modern AI / Ananthaswamy, Anil.
London: Penguin Random House, 2025

Economics



75 years of the Indian national sample survey: evolution of sample design, key challenges and way forward / Manna, G. C.
New Delhi: Springer, 2025

Fiction



The Elsewhereans: a documentary novel / Thayil, Jeet.
New Delhi: Fourth Estate, 2025

History



Lords of earth and sea: a history of the Chola empire / Kanisetti, Anirudh.
New Delhi: Juggernaut, 2025

Politics and Government



Shattered lands: five partitions and the making of modern Asia / Dalrymple, Sam.
New Delhi: Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2025

International Relations



Breakneck: China's quest to engineer the future / Wang, Dan.
London: Penguin Random House, 2025

Law



In]complete justice?: the Supreme Court at 75: critical reflections / Muralidhar, S. ed.
]]] New Delhi: Juggernaut, 2025

Politics and Government



Waiting for the people: the idea of democracy in Indian anticolonial thought / Sultan, Nazmul.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2024

Social Science



Why the poor don't kill us: the psychology of Indians / Joseph, Manu.
New Delhi: Aleph, 2025



The Sirens' call: how attention became the world's most endangered resource / Hayes, Chris.
New York: Penguin Press, 2025

Authors’ Corner



Chopra, Meena (A-2690)

Charismatic chiaroscuro: poetry & art (poetry, digital and video art). 2025



Krishan, Anita (A-9411)

Beyond a broken bridge. Fingerprint Publishing, 2025



Misra, Atulya (A-8087)

Testimony by fire. New Delhi: Rupa, 2025



Sharma, Kavita A. (A-2875)

Echoes of Nalanda. New Delhi: Rupa, 2025

eBooks



Uniting oceans, one maritime vision: India’s maritime strides (India Maritime Report 2025-26) / Centre for Maritime Economy and Connectivity (CMEC) and Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS). 2025

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