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Grand Dame of Destiny

Rajni George

Nayantara Sahgal talks about her life, work and the ever-changing idea of India on the eve of a new book and biography

LG X-Boom CM9940

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

A powerful system that allows you to play disc jockey at your own party

Stones of Empire

Swapan Dasgupta

Tristram Hunt’s portraits of cities such as Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay bring to life the imperial mission

Return of the Sage

Aditya Wig

This stark telling of the swift ascent of a political demagogue is a compelling commentary on modern India, despite a simplistic take on the ancient master of statecraft

Between the Sheets

Rajni George

An enjoyable erotic adventure, cooked up right at the publisher’s office, takes us directly to the young loins of politically correct urban India

Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

It has beautiful AMOLED 2,560x1,600-pixel display, which Samsung claims delivers more than 90 per cent of the Adobe RGB colour coverage, and has a remarkable 100,000:1 contrast ratio

Rega RP10

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

A classy turntable designed to extract clearer music from a vinyl record than ever before

The real deal

Rajni George

This elegant novel about young people in Delhi is a quietly subversive commentary on urban Indian life—and one of the most original voices in recent Indian fiction