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Heat and Dust (and the AC) in South Asian Novels

Authors with sweat-lined brows have invariably used air-conditioning as a literary device to get under their characters’ skin.

BlackBerry Torch

A combination of its Bold 2 and Storm 2 models, it has touch as well as qwerty.

Man of No Formula

Amartya Sen’s foreword doesn’t demystify Polanyi.

Hybrid Disc Drive

It’s almost as fast as an SSD, and retains the large capacity of a rotating hard disc.

Sweet Poison

Namita Devidayal’s Aftertaste tells the syrupy saga of families in the mithai business. The author pleads guilty of a sweet tooth.

How I wrote my 500 page novel set in ancient Greece without being there

‘The Emissary’ takes you to Ancient Greece at the time of Alexander the Great through the tale of a young renegade who ends up with a role in shaping Greek destiny. How the idea took seed, though, is another story

ISIO Shrub and Edging Shear

It’s a gardening tool to bring out the Edward Scissorhands in you.

The Pleasure Seekers

Doshi seems to have written an entire novel in search of answers that she believes will ground her to some sort of reality.

‘I Don’t Feel like an Overnight Sensation’

Writer Tishani Doshi speaks of creating her own luck, her debut novel and life as a ‘pleasure seeker’.

Emergency, Uncensored

A visual depiction of events of the 1970s that makes this dark period seem more sinister than ever.

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