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Samsung Galaxy Grand

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

A poor cousin of the Galaxy SIII, it’ll still find takers among brand loyalists

Why My Book Didn’t Sell

The book Spies from Space: The Isro Frame-up detailed how the real traitors in the Isro espionage case were CIA moles in India’s Intelligence Bureau. Is that why the book quickly disappeared from bookstores?

Grand Ambition with a Few Jarring Notes

Ranbir Singh Sidhu’s short stories are often pedestrian and spectacular at the same time

Love Stories Are Not Straight

This queer anthology questions labels such as ‘straight’ and ‘gay’ and, among other things, addresses the complications of love

Acer Aspire S7

It is slim and pretty, and can also open flat, at 180º. Now if only the battery lasted more than 4 hours

An Absent Memory of a Community

In her book, Sindh: Stories from a Vanished Homeland, Saaz Agarwal explores why the region continues to remain a collective blind spot of Partition, even for Sindhis who fled to India and then tried to erase it from memory. An extract:

Epson EH-TW8100

This projector will not give you skewed images even if it is not placed bang in front of the screen

Jabra Solemate

Its acoustics may not be great, but this portable speaker could still be the best thing to take along on a picnic

Sony Vaio Duo 11

A spiffy hybrid tablet that is also wonderful to use. But not for heavy users

Mahabharata Redux

The Last War is a re-imagining of the great epic set in the Mumbai underworld. In the dead of night, a few hours before he and his brothers go to war against their cousins for control of the city’s largest crime empire, Jeet Kuru starts having doubts. But that old fox Kishenbhai will have none of it. Extracts from a new novel

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