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Maa Maati Manush, and Motor Cars

Sumana Roy

Mamata Banerjee’s career has been bound to the automobile in strange ways. No wonder, then, the reader of her memoirs soon starts to play a game of car-spotting in the narrative

Sony HX10V

A feature-filled compact megazoom that can do both quality videos and stills

Firang Historian

Academic Jonathan Gil Harris is writing the history of the poor Europeans, as distinct from White Mughals, who settled here and became Indian

Whose Hostages?

A brilliant account of the 1995 kidnappings of six foreign nationals in Kashmir reveals shocking details of the involvement of the Indian State

Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra Olympic Collection

Here is the latest Seamaster, a watch that was first launched during the 1948 London Olympics

Epson WorkForce DS-30

If you need a small scanner for the road, or to save space, try this

Reading the Reader

On Tagore is as much about reading Rabindranath as it is about Amit Chaudhuri reading himself as a reader

The Long and Short of a Story

A novel is like building a house and a short story like furnishing a room, declares Anjum Hasan, who now has both under her belt

Mama Em’s Cope Book

In literature focused on insanity, the gaze seems to have shifted from the insane. The patient is no longer the victim; that status now belongs to the caregiver

Nikon Coolpix 510

A fully loaded point-and-shoot that might try your patience

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