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Sony Vaio Flip

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

An impressively versatile machine if you’re looking for a Windows 8 tablet and computer

The Place You Keep Going Back To

Chinki Sinha

Sankarshan Thakur’s biography of Nitish Kumar is also an intimate portrait of Bihar, a state you may be forced out of but cannot really ever leave

The Advantages of Failure

Madhavankutty Pillai

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, on underachievement as a good thing

Fujifilm X-E2

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

Fuji’s fastest autofocus camera in a slim body delivers some great images

The Eternal Poet

Rahul Pandita

A new biography of Sahir Ludhianvi brings to life the poet who changed the idiom of Hindi cinema lyrics

New Kindle Paperwhite

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

With its new ebook reader, Amazon retains its lead in the e-reader market

Tyranny of the Troll Reviewer

Indrajit Hazra

The withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s book reflects the increasing influence of the hyper-critic who reads not for pleasure or knowledge, but to spot offensiveness

On the occasion of the publication in English of his novel One Part Woman, Tamil writer Perumal Murugan talks about growing up a reader in a family of farmers and getting into trouble writing about caste

The Marathoner

Aastha Atray Banan

Vikram Chandra finds solitude annoying when he writes, but admits to not being a collaborative enough person to work on movies. He writes 400 words every day, adamant that writing is about a steady pace, not a stroke of inspiration