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Sohini Chattopadhyay
Censorship by any other name. Slap a defamation suit and leave it to our tardy legal system to ensure the offending material never gets out. B-school guru Arindam Chaudhuri is the latest practitioner of the art
First Candidate for a Cold Shower
The Booker-winning author’s enthusiasm for bewildering metaphors is just one of his many literary failures
Reality Check
The style is reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, but Binoo K John works with a disadvantage. He writes in English
The True India Book
Non-fiction in the country comes of age with Aman Sethi’s book about life on the margins of society
Why Litfests Matter
They may be a dime a dozen these days. But writers can benefit immensely from these interactions
Sea of Information
On reading the second part of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy, it’s evident that there is such a thing as too much research
That Prodigious Proclivity for Trickery
The heat and dust are factors, of course. But it’s also our penchant for scheming that makes us a nation of legendary spin bowlers
Your Computer Is Bugged
Every click of yours is quietly being watched. Worse, you are slowly being pushed into an information ghetto
The Lies of Nations
Nuclear haves and have-nots are blinkered hypocrites in this memoir of former IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei
Alice in Blunderland
While Alice Albinia, the non-fiction writer, refuses to tell a well-worn tale, Albinia the novelist succumbs easily to reductive depictions
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