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Pramila N. Phatarphekar
It’s alarming that this book got nominated for a mighty prize.
Bulleyan Algebra
This Sufi rocker’s autobiography makes you want to air-guitar your way along as you read.
How to Tame Your Dragon
Bhutan is a nation concerned about the effects of the sudden changes it’s encountering. No wonder its delegates at the country’s first lit fest have their energies focused on preserving its oral traditions.
Chicken Goop
A workshop on how to write the soul stirring stuff has this correspondent choking at the broth dished out. With laughter, that is.
Loud Silence
Don DeLillo is perhaps at the height of his powers, using less and less to say more and more about life in contemporary America.
Man in the Mask
Narendra Modi is a man of few words, but he chooses them well to fabricate his vision of a Hindu society and ignore uncomfortable realities
How Much Choice Can You Handle?
Sheena Iyengar has devoted a lifetime to studying the choices we make. This social psychologist’s latest work explains why too many choices confound us.
The Man Who Never Slept
Stieg Larsson’s biographer reveals the formidable journalist behind the man who wrote the crime thriller of the millennium, and the children’s book character which inspired the sketch of the girl with the dragon tattoo.
A Book with No Ending
Unfinished last works by famous authors have always intrigued readers. Just as fascinating is Herge’s last Tintin, where Haddock loses his taste for whisky and the pages turn blank even as Tintin faces inevitable death.
Hanif and the Sea of Stories
Hanif Kureishi’s older stories are brilliant, funny and compelling. But the newer ones are a disappointment.
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