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A State Gone to Seed

Soutik Biswas

A collection of essays fails to shed new light on an old topic. The focus is on Pakistan, not on the great divide

May the Force…

At 7.5 ft by 4.5 ft, weighing about 600 kg and a pre-customs tag of Rs 5.5 crore plus—it’s the biggest plasma screen ever

Don Quixote Gallops to Bengal

Rahul Jayaram

A professor tilts his pen at libraries here and abroad to put back on the shelf a contemporary version of a Spanish classic in Bengali

Tiger Terrain

GH Perris

Prabhakaran was terrified of peace. He lived off terror. But how did the LTTE fund its campaigns of sustained violence? This riveting account explains how

Hybrid Bicycle

arindam

Madras, Madras

TR Vivek

A brilliant debut novel captures in fine detail the experiences of a Tamil Brahmin family on and off trains

Stare at it like Chuck Norris

CP Surendran

A political thriller that drives you to death by drinking. But desperately dull writing demands desperately dire counter measures

In Conversation with Meghnad Desai

Rahul Jayaram

Economist Meghnad Desai on the fun he had—despite the many challenges—while writing his first work of fiction titled ‘Dead on Time’

‘Yes, I Don’t Like Pakistan’

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie speaks of a failure called Pakistan, and why his lawyer told him proving Indira Gandhi was not of good character was the only way to save his skin