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Origins of the Kashmir imbroglio (14 November 01:07) |
| Indranil Banerjie
While Howard B. Schaffer’s book admirably details American policy towards Kashmir and takes us through the many US-led attempts to sort out the crisis, it presents a one... |
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Up close personal (11 November 09:06) |
| By Pramita Bose
Om Puri may not be an unsung hero in showbiz, but an unlikely one definitely. The uncharted chapters of his journey and the closely-guarded alcoves of his private life find ... |
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Romanticising mortality (07 November 01:31) |
| Nawaid Anjum
My spirit is too weak;
mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined
pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick eagle... |
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Immortal yet intensely human Time for change in Sitas image (04 November 08:32) |
| Namita Gokhale
This search for Sita began near the botanical gardens in Peradiniya, Sri Lanka, on a day redolent with the breeze of spring. As I absorbed the lush landscape, the swaying pal... |
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Knotty affair Bridging the North-South divide (31 October 08:50) |
| By Shobha Sengupta
Chetan Bhagat, IITian and IIM alumnus, has come up with yet another blockbuster in his 2 States: The Story of My Marriage. His two in-between books after the 2004 debut n... |
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Zeroing in on Paks utterly precarious current state (28 October 10:18) |
| Anil Bhat
Talibanisation of Pakistan: From 9/11 to 26/11 is, in a way, the third in a trilogy of books by one of Pakistan’s most prolific journalists, Amir Mir, the earlier two being Gate... |
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I do not believe India is a particularly spiritual place (21 October 08:58) |
| Suparna Sharma
The drive to meet William Dalrymple at his Mehrauli farmhouse is like going to meet a reclusive maharaja. It’s long, dusty and on a rickety road that seems headed nowhere. ... |
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Indo-swiss tales in graphic detail (14 October 12:37) |
| Jairaj Singh
The term graphic novel to describe a comic book is not only the most popularly abused today, but it’s also contradictory in the highest order. A graphic novel, for instance, ... |
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A feast of the flesh (03 October 12:49) |
| By Shobha Sengupta
Electric Feather is a collection of 13 short stories with sex or erotica as pivot, put together by Ruchir Joshi, documentary filmmaker and novelist. The mark of any good ... |
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WATCHING TURKEY (30 September 06:41) |
| Latika Padgaonkar
The very title of Gonul Donmez-Colin’s book Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging is a pointer to the orientation principle of her study. Films in Turkey have... |
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Partition A painful inheritance of loss (25 September 11:45) |
| By Indranil Banerjie
For some people in India and Pakistan, Partition is destined to remain an obsession. This is particularly true of Punjabis, who witnessed some of the worst horrors of t... |
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Gunpowder plot on slow fuse (25 September 11:44) |
| By Chitra Rao
There is a basic problem all remarkable creators face: holding on to the benchmark that makes them remarkable.
Dan Brown is at a similar stage. His third book in the series s... |
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Its time for carefully designed dictionaries (19 September 02:03) |
| Nawaid Anjum
Words are building blocks of language. And dictionaries teach us the use of those building blocks. If you thought that in today’s day and age, dictionaries are becoming obsol... |
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The colours of desire (16 September 02:14) |
| Nawaid Anjum
When was the last time you read a collection of short stories which had lips and limbs spread across its pages? If it has been long, it’s time to indulge in a bit of erotica ... |
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Spiritual vibrations of the mind (16 September 02:13) |
| Anil Bhat
Beyond The Secret is a sequel to The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne (New York, Atria Books, 2006, 198 pages), based on which a video by the same title was also released in the same year.... |
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The master of marquee (09 September 03:17) |
| Shobha Sengupta
Having been deputy director in the Directorate of Film Festivals and managing director of the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), besides knowing Mrinal Sen and hi... |
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General in his labyrinth (04 September 10:27) |
| Indranil Banerjie
It has been a little more than a year since Pervez Musharraf stepped down from power in Pakistan. Yet he remains a larger-than-life figure in that country. Many revile him... |
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Fire within A journey in search of the self (02 September 04:00) |
| Nawaid Anjum
We all have the power to reimagine the ways we want to live our lives, the overpowering will to overcome all odds, the fierce determination to face the challenges strewn in our... |
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Lens and sensibility (29 August 02:50) |
| Latika Padgaonkar
It is in the nature of a book conceived as a tribute that the best be said of the person you pay tribute to, that praises flow and paeans be sung. But who can deny that in... |
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Birth of the capital city (26 August 02:36) |
| Karan Pradhan
"Calcutta was a natural choice for the British as site for a capital city in India," begins one of the very first chapters in the luxuriously laid out volume that is... |
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Myriad musings (18 August 11:12) |
| By Anil Bhat
Those who have read three earlier books by Roswitha Joshi — Life is Peculiar, On the Rocks and Other Stories and Once More (a novel) and her newspaper middles — should not ... |
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Unveiling social evils (15 August 12:11) |
| By Shobha Sengupta
When you pick up Pinki Virani’s book Deaf Heaven, be prepared to see the underbelly of human nature. Deaf Heaven is Virani’s first work of fiction, but is actually a ... |
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A snapshot view of cricket (15 August 12:11) |
| By Rahul Banerji
Harsha (it is difficult to call him anything else, so well-known and familiar a face has he become across the sub-continent) has been an integral part and parcel of the Ind... |
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Songs for All Seasons (04 August 11:30) |
| By Aloke Roy Chowdhury
Reba Som makes two important statements early in her book: first, most of the biographies of Tagore written so far are rather sketchy on his music, and second, she re... |
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Pakistan up close (01 August 04:23) |
| pfont size=2strongSuparna Sharmastrongfontp
pImagine a live screen where major political events of Pakistan are playing out €” Partition Zulfikar Ali Bhutto€™s arrest and assassination Zia-... |
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Making business sense (28 July 10:59) |
| p class=c1strongBy Anil Bhatstrongp
pUdai Vir Singhs 7 Deadly Sins of Corporate Mismanagement published soon after the Satyam scam - the largest in Indias known economic history -exploded a... |
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Homing in on holmes A baker st irregular (24 July 11:14) |
| pfont size=2strongShobha Senguptastrongfontp
pSir Arthur Conan Doyle€™s creation Sherlock Holmes has been an icon with a life of his own viewed independently of his creator The most brillia... |
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Red square of china (21 July 09:58) |
| Govind Talwalkar
Even after the death of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, China’s political life and its acceptance of the market economy remained a secret. But now the recently-publi... |
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Jaishree shifts focus of her fiction (21 July 09:57) |
| Sarju Kaul
It’s a major change of direction from semi-autobiographical first book to writing "commercial" popular fiction full of glamourous women and Jaishree Misra is enjoying... |
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Right stroke: little master stands tall (18 July 03:25) |
| Rohit Bhardwaj
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar has enthralled one and all with his classical copy book style batting, but he is also credited for his inimitable, beyond-the-surface writing.
Gavaska... |
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Right stroke little master stands tall (18 July 03:25) |
| p class=c1strongRohit Bhardwajstrongp
pSunil Manohar Gavaskar has enthralled one and all with his classical copy book style batting but he is also credited for his inimitable beyond-the-sur... |
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Call of the soil (15 July 01:36) |
| Nawaid Anjum
Human existence, writes Manreet Sodhi Someshwar in The Long Walk Home, is rather basic: the dead move away, the living move on. When Harbaksh Singh Bhalla aka Baksh, the protag... |
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€˜The story of Arzee is everybody€™s story€™ (13 July 10:06) |
| p class=c1strongNawaid Anjumstrongp
pMumbai-based writer and critic Chandrahas Choudhury creates an unforgettable character Arzee in his debut novel Arzee the Dwarf Published by HarperColli... |
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The story of Arzee is everybodys story (13 July 10:06) |
| Nawaid Anjum
Mumbai-based writer and critic Chandrahas Choudhury creates an unforgettable character, Arzee, in his debut novel, Arzee the Dwarf. Published by HarperCollins, it was released ... |
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‘The story of Arzee is everybody’s story’ (11 July 01:36) |
| Nawaid Anjum
Mumbai-based writer and critic Chandrahas Choudhury creates an unforgettable character, Arzee, in his debut novel, Arzee the Dwarf. Published by HarperCollins, it was released ... |
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Rhyme & reason (07 July 10:45) |
| Pramita Bosea
Zilka Joseph appears quite relaxed even as she reads out excerpts from her collection Lands I Live In at Kolkata’s Bookstore. She comes across as a sprightly young girl of s... |
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Rhyme reason (07 July 10:45) |
| pfont size=2strongPramita Boseastrongfontp
pZilka Joseph appears quite relaxed even as she reads out excerpts from her collection Lands I Live In at Kolkata€™s Bookstore She comes across as... |
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Eye on Indian, global security scenarios (04 July 12:05) |
| Indranil Banerjie
In today’s fast-paced world, keeping track of events is an unending and taxing task. A book like Prof Satish Kumar’s India’s National Security: Annual Review 2008 do... |
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Eye on Indian global security scenarios (04 July 12:05) |
| pfont size=2strongIndranil Banerjiestrongfontp
pIn today€™s fast-paced world keeping track of events is an unending and taxing task A book like Prof Satish Kumar€™s India€™s National Securi... |
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The song of life Tagore came to sing (04 July 12:04) |
| Nawaid Anjum
Music informed much of what the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore wrote. A new biography of Gurudev, Rabindranath Tagore: The Singer And His Song by Reba Som, published by Pen... |
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A view of the valley (01 July 02:45) |
| Nawaid Anjum
FOR JUSTINE Hardy, author, filmmaker and activist, Kashmir has been a home away from home for about two decades. Her latest book, In The Valley of Mist, published by Random Hou... |
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A hugely evocative story about a girl’s childhood (01 July 02:43) |
| Shobha Sengupta
This is a pathbreaking debut book by Samira Gupta, in that it uses photographs to illuminate a life and narrate a story. It somehow took me back to the time when I read two ... |
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A hugely evocative story about a girl€™s childhood (01 July 02:43) |
| pfont size=2strongShobha Senguptastrongfontp
pThis is a pathbreaking debut book by Samira Gupta in that it uses photographs to illuminate a life and narrate a story It somehow took me back ... |
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A hugely evocative story about a girls childhood (01 July 02:43) |
| Shobha Sengupta
This is a pathbreaking debut book by Samira Gupta, in that it uses photographs to illuminate a life and narrate a story. It somehow took me back to the time when I read two ... |
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Found in translation (27 June 02:03) |
| Nawaid Anjum
Novelist Mani Sankar Mukherji, popularly known as Sankar, belongs to the "golden age" of Bengali literature — the age of Saradhindu Bandopadhyay, Benoy Mukherjee (J... |
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The blueprint of a joyous, creative life (27 June 02:01) |
| Nawaid Anjum
As a life skills facilitator, P.S Wasu has been conducting a workshop called The Fine Print of Life since 1996. The workshop "impacts the mind models from which people ope... |
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The blueprint of a joyous creative life (27 June 02:01) |
| p class=c1strongNawaid Anjumstrongp
pAs a life skills facilitator PS Wasu has been conducting a workshop called The Fine Print of Life since 1996 The workshop quotimpacts the mind models fr... |
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No child’s play, this! (24 June 01:18) |
| Shagufta Kalim
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
—Hodding Carter, Jr.
RAKSHA BHARADIA has literally taken a leaf out of Carterâ€... |
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No child€™s play this! (24 June 01:18) |
| pfont size=2strongShagufta Kalimstrongfontp
pThere are two lasting bequests we can give our children One is roots The other is wingsp
p€”Hodding Carter Jrp
pRAKSHA BHARADIA has literally ... |
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No childs play this! (24 June 01:18) |
| Shagufta Kalim
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
—Hodding Carter, Jr.
RAKSHA BHARADIA has literally taken a leaf out of Carterâ€... |
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