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Jug Suraiya

The Great Desi Boorist
Travel Issue 2018
The Great Desi Boorist

Remember? How we scratched our names on Taj? Or was it Ajanta?

03 May 2018
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Roma Revividus

The final volume of the trilogy on Cicero’s life is a visceral portrayal of the long-lost Roman Empire

03 February 2016
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Lisbeth Salander and Literary Vampirism

Stieg Larsson gets a competent inheritor but the twice-told tale of the sequel should not lead to The Girl Who Created a Storm in a Teacup

16 September 2015
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Kathmandu, Mon Amour

A compelling love song for the author’s adoptive home, a city of multiple paradoxes

11 September 2014
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Voices
Requiem for Riverdale

What the death of Archibald Andrews says about the imperative of tolerance

30 July 2014
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Who gave slang a bad name?

The rich and complex history of slang demonstrates how we have always felt the need to express all that is raw, emotive and visceral through a pontaneous counter-language

07 May 2014
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Art & Culture
May the Joke Always Be on Us

How the politically incorrect ethnic joke keeps us together in the great fraternity of laughter

04 April 2014

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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