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Gangetic Blunders

CP Rajendran

The entwined fate of the river and the country

Books: Highlights of 2018

Shashi Tharoor, TM Krishna, Daniel Ellsberg, Yasser Usman, Husain Haqqani, Mary Beard, Zadie Smith, Snigdha Poonam, Salman Khurshid, John Zubrzycki, Sheila Dikshit, Roxane Gay, Barkha Dutt, Mohammed Hanif and others

Best Books of 2017: My Choice

MJ Akbar | Pratap Bhanu Mehta | William Dalrymple | Amit Chaudhuri | Aatish Taseer | Tishani Doshi | KR Meera | Vivek Shanbhag | TCA Raghavan

Best Books of 2017

This year threw up numerous gems from some expected but mostly unexpected corners

Intimately Joan Didion

A documentary shows why her views on cultural and moral chaos hold valuable lessons even today

The Prime Minister Who Never Was

Pranab Mukherjee’s many adventures in managing interests and egos to stabilise coalition politics

America First

A family drama resonant with moral ambiguities of the time

Bengali Exceptionalism

What’s it that makes the Bengalis Bengali?

‘Playboy made sexual abuse ordinary’

The American feminist writer Catharine MacKinnon says that sexual harassment has gone from being a privilege of power to a total disgrace

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