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Bose SoundLink Wireless Mobile Speaker

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

Finally, something sturdy and portable from the world’s best sound engineers

Couplet Omlette

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s translations of Kabir, with a generous dose of American slang, are awkward at times. But the remix experiment is worth the risk of failure

HTC EVO 3D

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

Yet another 3D phone. But you can turn off the 3D feature if it gets to you

LG Optimus P920

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

The world’s first 3D phone is also one of the fastest Android phones around

His Father’s Ghost

Hartosh Singh Bal

There is no doubt about Aatish Taseer’s skills as a writer, but there’s a limit to how much one can read about his troubled relationship with his father

‘Writing has a Religious Character’

Shaikh Ayaz

Aatish Taseer believes writing is an ‘intense form of concentration’, and when immersed in it, he often feels he can live without friends, family or lovers

The Memory Game

Parvati Sharma

A favourite for the Man Booker prize this year, Alan Hollinghurst’s country house novel may appear oddly familiar to Indian readers of English literature