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2014 BOOKS REVIEW: OPEN reviewers on their favourites
Rajni George
Faiza Sultan Khan, Tunku Varadarajan, Burhan Wazir, MJ Akbar, Mini Kapoor, Jug Suraiya
2014 BOOKS REVIEW: EDITOR’S CHOICE
The way things were • The zone of interest • The Myth of the strong leader • Thirteen days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
2014 REVIEW: BOOKS
Close to home • We are completely beside ourselves • How to build a girl • Mecca: The sacred city
Holiday Reading
America’s favourite non-hero’s swansong, an odd new tale from Ben Okri, a fashion diva’s gorgeous biography and the last of Follett’s Century trilogy
‘Of Course We Killed Him’
A nuanced new narrative of the Bangladesh Liberation War looks closely at Mujibur Rahman’s assassin
‘Some of My Friends Say All My Work Is Fiction’
The well known Delhi-based sociologist who has written a whodunnit set in America under a pseudonym
Speedmaster ‘Grey Side of the Moon’
The new Omega Speedmaster is inspired by man’s exploration of the moon
Show Me the Money
Banker-turned-writer Ravi Subramanian talks about his latest book, the first ever bitcoin-thriller, God is a Gamer, and the life of a writer of commercial fiction
Wizard of the Serio-Comic
Novelist Upamanyu Chatterjee is the master of Indian cool. In his latest, Fairy Tales at Fifty, he pushes his limits in a bleak tale of modern Indian anguish. The writer in conversation with Open magazine
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