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Chicken Goop

Kabeer Sharma

A workshop on how to write the soul stirring stuff has this correspondent choking at the broth dished out. With laughter, that is.

Loud Silence

Arshia Sattar

Don DeLillo is perhaps at the height of his powers, using less and less to say more and more about life in contemporary America.

Man in the Mask

Tridip Suhrud

Narendra Modi is a man of few words, but he chooses them well to fabricate his vision of a Hindu society and ignore uncomfortable realities

How Much Choice Can You Handle?

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

Sheena Iyengar has devoted a lifetime to studying the choices we make. This social psychologist’s latest work explains why too many choices confound us.

Samsung Konect Plus Monitor

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

An LCD screen that is much more than just a computer’s display unit.

Stieg Larsson’s biographer reveals the formidable journalist behind the man who wrote the crime thriller of the millennium, and the children’s book character which inspired the sketch of the girl with the dragon tattoo.

A Book with No Ending

Sandipan Deb

Unfinished last works by famous authors have always intrigued readers. Just as fascinating is Herge’s last Tintin, where Haddock loses his taste for whisky and the pages turn blank even as Tintin faces inevitable death.