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The international list

Rajni George

Japanese introverts, aircraft carriers, celebrity interviews, new dope on a legendary double agent, contemporary feminism 101, showgirls in 30s San Francisco, Spain after Franco and the Resistance

Miele RX1 Scout

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

Cleaning robots are not new, but this new model from Miele is a winner

One Book is Not Enough

Harish Khare

The controversial memoirs of the ex-confidant of Sonia Gandhi entertain but fail to deliver the Kissinger-esque history lessons the former foreign minister, a skilled storyteller, could have given us

An Ordinary Phenom

Ullekh NP

Cult writer Karl Ove Knausgaard’s powerful memory electrifies the mundane and turns it into the stuff of literary best-sellers

Leica M Anniversary Edition

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

A full-frame camera, with one of the sharpest lenses in the market

Serve and Sell

Sunaina Kumar

Why Indian politicians are bad memoirists. An underdeveloped genre and the greater publishing possibilities it offers

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