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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

Clutter Buster

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The UM 710 Mimo Monitor offers the extra space you need to keep your most-used apps at hand

Max Phone

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This HTC Max 4G will be a collectors’ item soon. It is the first 4G phone to the market. But don’t import it just yet

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

Suhit Kelkar

Last fortnight, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was nominated for the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Here, he lambastes English literary sensibility in India