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Pataudi, through Many Eyes

Akshay Sawai

This tribute to Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi brings into clear focus the cricketer who broke regional barriers in India’s dressing room

A Lange and Söhne: Grand Lange 1 ‘Lumen’

arindam

This timepiece reveals the numbers that other watches hide. It is also inspired by a 171-year-old clock

The Perils of ChickLit

arindam

Psychological hazards may lurk between the covers of such books

The Difficulty of Being Invisible

Chinki Sinha

Mayank Austen Soofi has a very instrusive presence on the pages of his book on the lives of Delhi’s sex workers

Samsung Galaxy Grand

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

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

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

Madhavankutty Pillai

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

Love Stories Are Not Straight

Suhit Kelkar

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

Acer Aspire S7

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

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

Saaz Aggarwal

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: