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Gag Order

Censorship by any other name. Slap a defamation suit and leave it to our tardy legal system to ensure the offending material never gets out. B-school guru Arindam Chaudhuri is the latest practitioner of the art

HTC Flyer

It won’t kill the iPad, but this is the best Android tablet around

First Candidate for a Cold Shower

The Booker-winning author’s enthusiasm for bewildering metaphors is just one of his many literary failures

Reality Check

The style is reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, but Binoo K John works with a disadvantage. He writes in English

The True India Book

Non-fiction in the country comes of age with Aman Sethi’s book about life on the margins of society

Acer Iconia Touchbook

This dual-screen device has some geewhiz features, but their use beats me

Why Litfests Matter

They may be a dime a dozen these days. But writers can benefit immensely from these interactions

Sea of Information

On reading the second part of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy, it’s evident that there is such a thing as too much research

That Prodigious Proclivity for Trickery

The heat and dust are factors, of course. But it’s also our penchant for scheming that makes us a nation of legendary spin bowlers

Motorola Xoom

Here’s another iPad challenger that may tempt you to convert. Not me, thank you

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