(Ex-banker and author of Busy Women: Building Commerce and Culture in Middle India) 2025 was my year of writing. I enter 2026 with two books of my own: Busy Women, a travelling commentary on contemporary tier two India through the lives of women, and a collection of poems in Hindi. I subscribe to the old school idea that reading is necessary for good writing, so I find my year-end list to be dominated by books about India. I referenced popular books on India by Tharoor, Naipaul, Pankaj Mishra, Nandan Nilekani, Rama Bijapurkar, Pavan Varma, and Gurcharan Das and others. But...