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Musk Mystique

Madhavankutty Pillai

A new biography of the world’s richest man portrays a genius who is also a deeply flawed human being

‘I have written on Ambedkar in good faith’

Shashi Tharoor’s latest book, Ambedkar: A Life, dwells on the scholar-politician’s trials and tribulations, achievements and associations, and his differences with leaders of the stature of Gandhi and Nehru

The Author between the Lines

Mini Kapoor

Do we read too much biographical detail into novels?

Roth Unbound

Sudeep Paul

Remembering an American master on the anniversary of his death—and the biography that boomeranged

Unbooked

Madhavankutty Pillai

Cancel culture strikes again with Philip Roth’s biography being pulled out by the publisher

The Last Scriptwriter

N Kalyan Raman

An empathetic portrait of Karunanidhi

A Tale of Two Menons

G Sreekumar

Comparing VK and VP is odious. They made the best of what destiny offered them

Biography as Fiction

Bhavya Dore

Devi S Laskar’s debut novel navigates present-day US with its police brutality, racial tension and immigrant angst

The Sound of Music

Nandhu Sundaram

A fan tells the AR Rahman story

The Lives of Others

Yasser Usman

Sanjay Dutt’s biographer Yasser Usman on the ennui of hagiographies and the challenge of writing unauthorised biographies

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biography

Musk Mystique

‘I have written on Ambedkar in good faith’

The Author between the Lines

Roth Unbound

Unbooked

The Last Scriptwriter

A Tale of Two Menons

Biography as Fiction

The Sound of Music

The Lives of Others

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