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All That We’ve Lost Since Harappa

Chronicling the past as well as documenting the contemporary, Banerjee playfully counts our losses

Acer Liquid Metal

A good-looking phone that performs better than its specs suggest

Fuji HS10

Here is a point-and-shoot super zoom with features of a professional camera

Five Pages That Became a Film

Tracing a Ruskin Bond story to a Vishal Bhardwaj screenplay, and discovering what got lost in the process

When Jeffrey Archer Writes His 13th Draft

That’s the right time to send it to the editor, says the bestseller man who writes in complete silence and pure isolation

Good Words, Bad Words

How the taboos of a language change, and what they say about its speakers

Acer TM 8472

A very good entry-level business laptop that’s also great for users who don’t want to spend a packet on a black notebook

An Objective Narrative

An alternative history of the world told through objects—some seminal and others refreshingly ordinary

Fluorescent Ink

With five books from four publishers in recent months, gay writing has finally come to market. But these are not ‘coming out’ stories

iPad 2

33 per cent thinner, 10 per cent lighter, 200 per cent faster, but priced the same as the first iPad

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