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The Writer Who Came In From the Cold

Sudeep Paul

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

Spying

Swapan Dasgupta

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

Anti-national

Virendra Kapoor

The most used pejorative

Rao’s Range

Kaveree Bamzai

Rajkummar Rao glimpses the next level of stardom with a buzzworthy performance as the urbane yet deeply compromised elitist in the movie based on Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger

Bengali Flavour

Jayanta Ghosal

An appeal for swadeshi

Can’t Share Details of Missing Troops Along LAC: MoD

Ullekh NP

It is sensitive information, says ministry in response to a query on casualties in this year’s skirmishes along the India-China border

‘Ek Woh Bhi Diwali Thi’

Virendra Kapoor

To tell you the truth, the word pollution was alien to the wider civilisation in the late 1950s and 1960s

The Book of Overcoming

Bibek Debroy

What the old texts tell us about codes of behaviour and the creation of wealth in a calamity

It’s the Modi Surge, Still

PR Ramesh

Bihar was showing signs of Nitish fatigue and then came Campaigner Modi with a compelling message that would stop Tejashwi in his tracks and save the chief minister from the brink