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A State Gone to Seed
Soutik Biswas
A collection of essays fails to shed new light on an old topic. The focus is on Pakistan, not on the great divide
Don Quixote Gallops to Bengal
A professor tilts his pen at libraries here and abroad to put back on the shelf a contemporary version of a Spanish classic in Bengali
Tiger Terrain
Prabhakaran was terrified of peace. He lived off terror. But how did the LTTE fund its campaigns of sustained violence? This riveting account explains how
Madras, Madras
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
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