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Gary Shteyngart: This Is a Blurber to Watch

Lhendup G Bhutia

Gary Shteyngart has brought a Russian-American sensibility to literary fiction to great comic effect. He talks about his next book and the new America

Open Diary

The legacy of John Le Carre and the life of a political activist

Lenin De-Mummified

Tariq Ali resurrects the Soviet patriarch from distortions of history

Snowden’s Falling Angels

Asylum seekers in Hong Kong who had sheltered the whistleblower are being hounded by official agencies and even denied basic services

Seeking Bollywood in Brazil

Indian soft power has to travel beyond familiar shores

The Cost of Localising BRICS

Let’s not induce the world to re-hyphenate India and Pakistan

Thank God No Margarita for Modi

Skipping the NAM summit is Modi’s heroic effort to retrieve India from the last morasses of ideology

Europe Reimagined

As three historians return to the bloody evolution of 20th century Europe, we realise how the current cataclysms of a continent make it easier for us to understand its past

Plain Truth

Complex plots, religious questions, political drama, fairy tales and shifting versions of reality, vodka’s story more than makes up for its lack of colour

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