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Intel Reader

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

Just shoot a picture of that fine print on a book or restaurant menu, and have it read out to you

Husain’s New Canvas

Arindam Mukherjee

He’s 94, but not afraid of opening up to new technology. Artist MF Husain sketches his life out for the e-reader.

Rawlsian Relay

Aresh Shirali

Amartya Sen declares the Ideal State useless. But four months on, its resilience as an idea begins to intrigue

Uncivil Lines

Open

Sex, Goa, wild elephants and last but not the least, Khushwant Singh in his element. These are just some of the features that give this anthology a quixotic, rogue appeal.

Fallen Apart

TR Vivek

Journalist Kingshuk Nag has wasted little time in putting together an account of Ramalinga Raju’s dubious deeds.

Bing! Google’s Still the Best

Avinash Subramaniam

Nifty gadgets and cool homepages don’t make for a sexy search engine. Relevant results do

What’s Your Pass-phrase?

Avinash Subramaniam

Worried about how secure your net passwords really are? Here’s a simple two-step way to create passwords no hacker can touch.

Portrait of a City

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Restless, fevered even, and awash with the portend of impending doom, Theroux’s latest is difficult to put down or forget.

Lenovo Idea Center 600

arindam

The moment you look at it, you want to get close, see the curvy body and say, oh man, how I want this in my bedroom

The Thorough Mr Theroux

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Paul Theroux on his latest novel set in Calcutta, on how Naipaul ‘oversimplified the city in one of his belittling books’, on why you can never trust writers...