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Poet of the Paddyfields
Jyotirmoy Talukdar
Hiren Bhattacharyya, the Assamese poet who recently passed away, was a rare writer whose works are taught from high school to university
‘There will never be another don like Dawood’
In a short conversation, writer S Hussain Zaidi offers an insight into the relevance of the underworld now that terrorists have given a new meaning to ‘crime’.
Gangs of Mumbai
Dawood’s Rampuri knife as his first weapon, a love affair that led to a bitter fight with a Christian gang, and other such nuggets on the Mumbai mafia. In all, a thrilling read
The Anonymity Effect
If you look past its author’s name and ‘Nobel prize winner’ appellation, Home is a taut read with a jazzy rhythm—till you reach a revelation that makes you squirm
A Rotten but Not Entirely Unlikeable Man
A corrupt underling is as crooked as the system he works in, but Bagchi’s quiet, masterly prose leaves you with sympathy for his morally bankrupt protagonist
Blaft from the Past
An independent publishing house based in Chennai has brought the joy back to reading with pure, unadulterated pulp fiction
The Writer Who Doesn’t Mind the Northeastern Label
Jahnavi Barua on geographic labelling as a pragmatic exercise, giving up her medical practice, and making it to prestigious literary prize shortlists
Cartoons by the Colonised
The pre-Independence Parsee Punch offers political comment and gently subversive humour
Maa Maati Manush, and Motor Cars
Mamata Banerjee’s career has been bound to the automobile in strange ways. No wonder, then, the reader of her memoirs soon starts to play a game of car-spotting in the narrative
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