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Madras, Madras
TR Vivek
A brilliant debut novel captures in fine detail the experiences of a Tamil Brahmin family on and off trains
Stare at it like Chuck Norris
A political thriller that drives you to death by drinking. But desperately dull writing demands desperately dire counter measures
In Conversation with Meghnad Desai
Economist Meghnad Desai on the fun he had—despite the many challenges—while writing his first work of fiction titled ‘Dead on Time’
‘Yes, I Don’t Like Pakistan’
Salman Rushdie speaks of a failure called Pakistan, and why his lawyer told him proving Indira Gandhi was not of good character was the only way to save his skin
The Long Bore
The story is about the author’s father who travels down memory lane beginning from pre-Partition Hindustan, and everything else afterward
Critical Condition
Last fortnight, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was nominated for the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Here, he lambastes English literary sensibility in India
New Book, Old Murthy
The book is a collection of his speeches and, unlike his colleague Nilekani (who wrote Imagining India), does not work on a roadmap for India
What Orwell Owes to Motihari
The great novelist was born in Bihar. Who cares to remember? None, if the derelict state of his house is any indication
Riot and Wrong
As the Jarnail Singh incident reminds us, the 1984 anti-Sikh riots still rankle. This essay from Khushwant Singh’s Why I Supported the Emergency explains why
Good Khan, Bad Khan
John Man’s book on the warrior king Genghis Khan tries hard to make a leadership guru out of him. And falls flat
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