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Night Birds - A Collection of Short Writings (20 March 11:58) |
| The birds that fly in the night can see through the dark. Such is the nature of inspirations that appear to the spiritual seeker. |
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The full nine yards (20 March 12:10) |
| The sari has come to be regarded somewhat like an amiable grandmother: loved and looked up to, hugged and cossetted, admired on occasion for past achievements, but considered somewhat dated. |
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Off with the market (20 March 12:07) |
| Joseph Stiglitz, in his new book Freefall, says the time has come to build a New Capitalism, one which will require trust between Wall Street and the rest of society. |
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Tales from the edge (20 March 12:05) |
| TC Boyle loves to write about people in extremis: people who are odd, obsessive, strangely gifted, bizarrely damaged or just plain mad. |
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The science of kissing and lots more (20 March 12:00) |
| A small book which hops from one quirky topic to another. |
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Middle-class cameos (13 March 12:01) |
| In the journey from our nondescript pasts into an ever-hurtling future, we often miss a turn and lose track of who we were and where we came from. |
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Blame it on the Brits (13 March 11:59) |
| Finishing Pavan Varma's Becoming Indian, the reader is left decidedly confused about its central underpinning. Loosely put, this can be described as an interrogation of identity or, more acc... |
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The man who saw tomorrow (13 March 11:56) |
| Two biographies of economist John Maynard Keynes, who is back in fashion and how. |
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Dream Debuts (13 March 11:51) |
| The first-ever Marvel Comic included the first appearance of android superhero The Human Torch. A copy of this issue was auctioned for $227,050. The handwritten notes on the book indicate th... |
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SUPERHEROES storm the bank (13 March 11:46) |
| Recently, a copy of Action Comics No 1, in which Superman first appeared in 1938, sold for a record $1 million. That price was eclipsed the same week by Batman's debut. |
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The Five Temptations Of A CEO (28 February 03:38) |
| In this book, management consultant Patrick Lencioni deftly tells the tale of a young CEO who, facing his first annual board review, knows he is failing, but doesn't know why. |
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Vanishing Act (27 February 12:27) |
| Upamanyu Chatterjee's latest novel is clumsy and verbose.
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The spies who loved us (27 February 12:23) |
| Historians working on India face formidable challenges. Many of our archives are not up to the mark. |
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Ins and outs of Indian politics (27 February 12:19) |
| This is a big book - both in size and scope. In little over 600 pages and 38 essays, the Oxford Companion covers the big-ticket items of Indian politics from the Constitution to caste, from ... |
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Paean to pluralism (27 February 12:16) |
| For over half a century, the house of a famous couple in Mumbai, Kaifi Azmi and Shaukat Kaifi, attracted litterateurs like moths to the light. |
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Beating Low (20 February 11:59) |
| It is a practical guide that will help executives in traditional companies develop winning strategies to meet the growing challenge from low cost competitions. |
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The Wisdom of Forgiveness
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| In a world where peace is elusive and empathy is in short supply, Dalai Lama is an oasis in the desert. |
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Peep into Salingers world (13 February 01:19) |
| The letters, a total of 11, were written between 1951 and 1993, from one buddy, or "Buddyroo," to another... |
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Holmes as Forrest Gump (13 February 01:18) |
| Other than to locales such as the Reichenbach Falls in central Switzerland , Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes rarely travelled abroad, though visits to Europe and Asia are alluded to in ... |
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All for a song (13 February 01:14) |
| In 1980, Biddu barged into every young life in north India. |
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Inspector Fox Calling (13 February 01:11) |
| Ian Rankin serves up a different kind of detective for Rebus fans. |
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When empire was smitten (06 February 01:29) |
| Once upon a time, a powerful queen became interested in a young man who waited at her table... |
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Yet another post-9 11 novel (06 February 01:26) |
| Pakistani writers are the flavour of this fleeting season Young HM Naqvi is the latest to swell their by now well-sung ranks... |
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Practising Greatness (31 January 02:35) |
| Often spiritual leaders do not aspire to greatness for fear of seeming to lack humility. |
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The shadowy world of counter-terror (31 January 02:32) |
| In his 'report' on the war on terror, Amitava Kumar tells stories of lives destroyed because of mere suspicion. |
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Be Rich Happy (31 January 02:29) |
| If your years in school did little to prepare you for the challenges of the real world, then this book is for you. |
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Not Dog-eared (31 January 02:00) |
| New look for Gabo's home: The renovated house of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is due to open in February in the Colombian town of Aracataca. |
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Smart pics What you might have read this week about Australia (31 January 01:58) |
| What you might have read this week about Australia — but probably didn't. |
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An easy Sunday read The Many Conditions of Love (31 January 01:58) |
| Simplicity is what makes this book work — nothing in Farahad Zama's The Many Conditions of Love will stay with you very long, nor will any character impress you with the force of his or he... |
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Classics corner H G Wells (31 January 01:47) |
| The Time Machine, the Island of Dr Moreau, the Invisible Man and the War of the World are some of the best-known works of H G Wells. |
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TOI Crest QUICK REVIEW (30 January 12:50) |
| TOI Crest: QUICK REVIEW |
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JD Salinger Master of teen angst (30 January 12:46) |
| What really knocked readers out about The Catcher in the Rye was the wonderfully immediate voice that JD Salinger, who died this week at the age ... |
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New kids on the block (30 January 12:44) |
| The epigraphs to HM Naqvi's debut novel Home Boy - excerpts from F Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up , Faiz Ahmed Faiz's The Hour of Faithlessness ... |
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Return to Almora A spiritual potboiler (23 January 12:43) |
| This is an intriguing novel; it turns out to have a double life... |
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From Botswana via Malgudi (23 January 12:41) |
| Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, creator of the redoubtable Precious Ramotswe, doesn't consider himself a detective-fiction writer.
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Accidental crime writer Ian Rankin (23 January 12:39) |
| Ian Rankin says Inspector Rebus, his unforgettable creation, might just be back ... |
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TOI Crest - QUICK REVIEW (16 January 12:43) |
| Quick review by TOI Crest |
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Made for the movies (16 January 12:41) |
| Swashbuckling buccaneers in pursuit of Spanish gold, fierce gun battles at sea, an attack by a giant squid, cruel villains who laugh at the ... |
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All you need is love (16 January 12:33) |
| It's hard to form a definite opinion of Farahad Zama's second novel, The Many Conditions of Love... |
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Jewels in the Crown (16 January 12:31) |
| The magnificient obsessions of the maharajas, and much more ... |
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Why Women Mean Business (10 January 12:04) |
| Never before has there been such a confluence of international attention to the economic importance of women and the need for policies to enable them to fulfill their potential. |
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Another shot at decoding India (02 January 04:29) |
| Ever since India belatedly joined China as another flavour of the season, there has been an outpouring of interest in the West centred on the question: can India live up to its potential? |
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The big fat red book (02 January 03:51) |
| The Red Book by Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, has surprised booksellers and its publisher by bucking the economy and becoming difficult, and in some... |
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What we were reading in the noughties (27 December 03:56) |
| What we were reading in the noughties. |
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MARK THESE BOOKS (26 December 04:44) |
| Any list is subjective But that doesn't stop us from compiling them As Umberto Eco says, lists have an "irresistible magic" ... |
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How to Control Mind And Be Stress-Free (20 December 12:36) |
| According to the author, although these are subtle and invisible aspects of our life, they influence our personality. |
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The Zen of Helping (20 December 12:30) |
| Bring compassion, self-awareness and caring to the relationships you have with you patients by utilizing the advice in this book. |
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Grays Anatomy in colour (19 December 01:18) |
| Sometime in late 1855, two young London doctors discussed the possibility of bringing out an illustrated textbook of anatomy to help future surgeons. |
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The Learning Curve (19 December 01:15) |
| James Tooley's The Beautiful Tree comes at an opportune time for discussions around elementary education in India. |
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Married unhappily ever after (19 December 01:11) |
| The subject of marriage has long held the interest of specialists and laypersons. A recent crop of studies on Indian marriage have livened up the discussion on Indian marriage and brought up... |
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