Striving hard & reaching the top

Roopinder Singh reviews Becoming by Michelle Obama. Penguin. Pages 426. Rs 999. A woman juggles so many roles in a life, a married woman more so — daughter, wife, mother, working person, social engagements for herself, her husband and children — imagine that manifold and think of the spotlight of television cameras on you all the time, demanding that you achieve …

How do you solve a problem like Trump?

He is a misogynist; so in love with his ideas that he does not listen to any other; doesn’t even read the ‘day book’ briefings presented to him at night; is prone to changing his mind and spinning his opinion on a dime; suffers from a siege mentality, regularly insults you and your colleagues and on top of all this, …