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“That the world that you knew, and that in a way made you— that world vanishes. I don’t think I’m alone in that,” says Salman Rushdie

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“That the world that you knew, and that in a way made you— that world vanishes. I don’t think I’m alone in that,” says Salman Rushdie
Azim Premji: ‘Being rich did not thrill me’
Azim Premji: ‘Being rich did not thrill me’
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Raghuram Rajan: ‘There’s anger at the elite’
Raghuram Rajan: ‘There’s anger at the elite’
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‘The expectations of Modi were unrealistic,’ says Ruchir Sharma
‘Trump has a boyish crush on Putin,’ says Simon Sebag Montefiore
Ratan Tata: ‘We don’t have the urge to be No 1’
‘MeToo has made women weak and whiny,’ says Lionel Shriver
David Gilmour: ‘The Raj-bashers are oversimplifying a long and very varied period of history’
Tridip Suhrud: ‘Did Gandhi fear a violent death? No. He feared a purposeless death’

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Simon Kuper: “It is almost impossible for India to stay as bad as it is in footballl”
‘It is an Indo-Italian love story’

‘It is an Indo-Italian love story’

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‘My advice to Pakistan: Stop inventing history,’ says Husain Haqqani
Sourav Ganguly: ‘Under me, players weren’t picked and dropped at my whim and fancy’
Alyssa Ayres: ‘‘Nothing is guaranteed as India looks to its future’’