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The Girl In The Spider’s Web: A review
September 21, 2015, 7:00 PM IST
Sequels are a challenge in themselves but to get into someone else’s head and come up with an arresting narrative to match the original creation is a daunting task. The Millennium series (The Girl With Dragon Tattoo, The…
September 21, 2015, 7:00 PM IST
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The right and wrong of the Emergency
August 13, 2015, 3:12 PM IST
Forty years after its imposition by Empress Indira, the Emergency (proclaimed on June 25, 1975) remains a hot topic in India. Could there have been any reasonable justification for Mrs Gandhi to impose the emergency? Why…
August 13, 2015, 3:12 PM IST
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Book review: The Gita for children
August 11, 2015, 12:28 PM IST
Ours is the age of incentives, especially economic. Without incentives, nothing would get accomplished. What’s in it for me is the fundamental question that agitates you and me. And that’s applicable not only for adults…
August 11, 2015, 12:28 PM IST
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The call of Varanasi
July 16, 2015, 12:42 PM IST
When Narendra Modi went to Varanasi a year ago, he said “mother Ganga had called me.” The call of Varanasi (Kashi) is irresistible for every Indian, not merely for Hindus for religious reasons, but for…
July 16, 2015, 12:42 PM IST
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Flood of Fire: A tale of globalisation, nationalism and love
July 3, 2015, 3:28 PM IST
A book can be read at different levels. Amitav Ghosh’s Flood of Fire, the last of the Ibis trilogy, is a terrific read as is all Ghosh books are. Ghosh is a brilliant storyteller and…
July 3, 2015, 3:28 PM IST
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Is it the beginning of the end for CPM?
June 30, 2015, 11:50 PM IST
Is Aruvikkara the beginning of the end for CPM in Kerala? A victory by more than 10,000 votes in the by-election for Congress’s K S Sabarinadhan, representing the four-year-old UDF government that battled varied allegations…
June 30, 2015, 11:50 PM IST
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Make the summer sizzle with the best of crime fiction
June 3, 2015, 12:43 PM IST
If you want to enjoy this summer with crime fiction, grab Bloomsbury’s crime box set — it is a real treat priced at Rs 850. Parker Bilal, Lucie Whitehouse and Lotte and Soren Hammer will…
June 3, 2015, 12:43 PM IST
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Becoming Jobs is not an easy exercise
April 24, 2015, 3:00 PM IST
Who was Steve Jobs? Half-genius and half asshole? A new book, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by business journalists Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli (published by Sceptre;…
April 24, 2015, 3:00 PM IST
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How Modi won it
March 4, 2015, 2:42 PM IST
How did Modi win it? Although the severe drubbing that BJP suffered in the Delhi assembly elections in 2015 has taken the lustre away from Narendra Modi’s May Moment in 2014, the scale of his…
March 4, 2015, 2:42 PM IST
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Whisky, morphine and being mortal
January 14, 2015, 12:59 PM IST
As we live, we die. But we are never prepared to die. Not even when we are old. That would make one sigh in envy of those who die young and are mourned by the…
January 14, 2015, 12:59 PM IST
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Why Naseeruddin Shah hates William Shakespeare
December 23, 2014, 5:37 PM IST
How would Naseeruddin Shah like to be described? Bollywood actor? Nah. He is far from enamoured of Hindi film industry (“My career was barely five years old, and along with some critically acclaimed stuff I…
December 23, 2014, 5:37 PM IST
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Did 2014 elections change India?
December 3, 2014, 12:20 PM IST
Did 2014 elections change India? On Monday morning a church was burnt down in east Delhi. On the same day Union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti during a rally in Delhi, ahead of the assembly elections,…
December 3, 2014, 12:20 PM IST
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We’re all in the same boat as writers, says Richard Ford
December 1, 2014, 6:29 PM IST
Richard Ford, the celebrated American author of Wildlife and Sportswriter, returns with his hero Frank Bascombe in ‘Let Me Be Frank With You’. In a Q&A with me, Frank says that Ford would think the…
December 1, 2014, 6:29 PM IST
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Book review: How Google Works
November 19, 2014, 3:30 PM IST
How often you Google? Google search engine has become almost an invasive presence in our lives. Not a day goes by without one checking Gmail and looking for information on Google. Do you then want…
November 19, 2014, 3:30 PM IST
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Does Kerala need a Sachin to kick around?
November 17, 2014, 7:15 PM IST
Malayali had loved football and kicked it around with glee and purpose even when management groups were not there to do their studies and promote the game. He had then relied on primal passion for…
November 17, 2014, 7:15 PM IST
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Walking on The Narrow Road to the Deep North
November 13, 2014, 6:34 PM IST
One can travel to unknown lands of mind through Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (published by Chatto & Windus, distributed in India by Penguin, pages 448). It is not a merely…
November 13, 2014, 6:34 PM IST
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When Sachin ‘scored a selfie’ for Kerala Blasters
November 12, 2014, 8:29 PM IST
In football, they say, you have to be at the right place at the right time to score. On Thursday night (November 6, 2014) many at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium were at the right place…
November 12, 2014, 8:29 PM IST
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Is Pakistan playing ‘Muslim cricket’?
September 30, 2014, 1:10 PM IST
One of the positive fallouts of partition is our neighbour’s cricket team. Imagine how poor cricket would have been without Pakistan — no Javed Miandad, Imran Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Abdul Qadir, Waqar Yunus and Wasim…
September 30, 2014, 1:10 PM IST
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Why Sri Lanka does not cry
August 21, 2014, 7:14 PM IST
There is peace in Sri Lanka, but the island remains divided. In the summer of 2009, Mahinda Rajapaksa, the modern-day Dutugemunu, killed Vellupillai Prabhakaran and ended the 30-year Tamil rebellion. Not only the Sri Lankan…
August 21, 2014, 7:14 PM IST
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When Kashmir’s half mothers tune in to BBC
August 2, 2014, 10:07 PM IST
Kashmir has a chequered past and troubled present. How does one encounter a work of fiction that is so rooted in its people’s struggles and travails? How open and accepting the reader can be about…
August 2, 2014, 10:07 PM IST
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