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Living in Fear by MJ Akbar | Science and Public Trust by Dipankar Gupta | A Historical Portrait of the Mask

11 Dec, 2020 - 18 Dec, 2020

Vol 11 | Issue 61

Best of 2020 Books: My Choice

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Sunil Khilnani | William Dalrymple | Jeet Thayil | Shashi Tharoor | TCA Raghavan | David Davidar | Aatish Taseer | Ira Mukhoty | Mahesh Rao | Dipankar Gupta | Srinath Raghavan | Tabish Khair | Tishani Doshi | Anita Nair

Editor’s Note

S Prasannarajan

The redundancy of resolutions and other Covid lessons

Spying

Swapan Dasgupta

John le Carré told us, was strictly a thinking man’s profession

How Covid Played with Sport

Lhendup G Bhutia

Sport in 2020 wasn’t only about achievements

The Mystery of Paneer’s Presence

Madhavankutty Pillai

What’s it doing among what Google says people searched the most in 2020?

The Writer Who Came In From the Cold

Sudeep Paul

The greatest spy novelist fictionalised his life while his fiction often seemed too real

Hope and Happiness

Bibek Debroy

Sorrow cannot touch the learned person who has conquered his senses

A Million Manufactured Mutinies

Minhaz Merchant

The Modi government should not compromise on core principles

Retirement Gambit

Jayanta Ghosal

Time to take political sanyas

Science and Public Trust

Dipankar Gupta

As we wait for the vaccine

Inversations In the Year of Fear

MJ Akbar

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