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The Long Bore
Rahul Pandita
The story is about the author’s father who travels down memory lane beginning from pre-Partition Hindustan, and everything else afterward
Critical Condition
Last fortnight, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was nominated for the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Here, he lambastes English literary sensibility in India
Wrist Click
The mobile phone made wrist watches redundant. But the wrist was forlorn. Well, the mobile phone has obliged
New Book, Old Murthy
The book is a collection of his speeches and, unlike his colleague Nilekani (who wrote Imagining India), does not work on a roadmap for India
What Orwell Owes to Motihari
The great novelist was born in Bihar. Who cares to remember? None, if the derelict state of his house is any indication
Battery Bike
It is surely not in the Yamaha YZF R1 category, but the Zero S has more power than most petrol powered bikes on our roads
Riot and Wrong
As the Jarnail Singh incident reminds us, the 1984 anti-Sikh riots still rankle. This essay from Khushwant Singh’s Why I Supported the Emergency explains why
Good Khan, Bad Khan
John Man’s book on the warrior king Genghis Khan tries hard to make a leadership guru out of him. And falls flat
A Working Proposition
Bestselling author Alain de Botton on his latest book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, and why he wrote it.
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