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Planet of the Potentates

Ambarish Satwik

A compelling treatise by a seer-savant studies what the ascendancy of Homo sapiens has made of our world

GoPro Hero 4 Black

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

This versatile camera is as good as having a film crew at hand

Tales from Sin City

Shahnaz Habib

Two Delhi debuts take on questions of ownership and identity in the city that is never fully awake. One does better than the other

A Curious Tale from the Promised Land

Rajni George

The charming story of a family of Indians who went to Jerusalem to mind an Indian hospice and stayed

Urdu Immortal

Shougat Dasgupta

A newly translated selection of stories finds irony, poetry and wasted opportunity in the troubled history of the Subcontinent

Big Screen, Small Dreams

Sunaina Kumar

A study of Indian cinema post-liberalisation uses Bollywood’s subtexts to examine the great Indian middle class

Nikon D750

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

The smallest and lightest Nikon FX-format DSLR to feature a monocoque body

The Reconfigured Utopia

Ziauddin Sardar

Mecca today is a microcosm of its own history replayed as tragedy

Poet of the Mundane

Shahnaz Habib

Amit Chaudhuri matches the glorious nothingness of Afternoon Raag at last with his beautiful new novel about a bookish young Bengali Everyman and his uncle in London

Poet of the Mundane

Shahnaz Habib

Amit Chaudhuri matches the glorious nothingness of Afternoon Raag at last with his beautiful new novel about a bookish young Bengali Everyman and his uncle in London