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Graveyard of ignorance

A first-hand study of Pashtuns offers a native’s perspective often lost on world capitals

LG 84UB980T

It’s not just a top-end smart TV, but an experience that’s as immersive as it gets

Sacred treasure

A limited edition pictorial guide to Varanasi returns a rare British Library map to India after more than a century

‘I have an ill-defined yearning to belong to some stretch of this earth’

Zia Haider Rahman’s first novel, In the Light of What We Know, is already the literary event of the year (reviewed in Open, ‘A Groundbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’, 23 June 2014). Born in Bangladesh and educated at Oxford, Cambridge and Yale, Rahman has worked as an investment banker and human rights lawyer. The novelist in conversation with S Prasannarajan, editor, Open magazine

Audeze LCD-X

The pursuit of high end audio ends with these handcrafted headphones

Recommended reading for this summer

The literary world tells us what to read this summer

The bad girl’s guide to Delhi

A first novel offers sharp visuals and flashes of insight into the city but falls victim to the very banality it projects onto its hapless subjects

A Passage to America

A warm Indian-American debut suffers the narrative pitfalls of mental illness but finds safe harbour

Memoir as manifesto

America’s former Secretary of State gears up for a presidential campaign with a much-anticipated autobiography

Leaos E-Bike

A futuristic electric bike that combines style with state-of-the art technology

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