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‘Foreign secretary, you are losing hair!’

‘Foreign secretary, you are losing hair!’

It was a traditional ceremony for signing an agreement with Finland in 1983.

13 July 2016 2:31 AM IST

Success in non-mainstream careers

Making the right career choices doesn’t just affect your own future. When a whole generation does so, it’s a...

12 July 2016 10:17 PM IST

Matter of choice

Author and mythologist devdutt pattanaik’s latest book The Girl Who Chose retells the Ramayana through the choices...

12 July 2016 10:16 PM IST

Colourful feathers and songbirds

Colourful feathers and songbirds

It has been the most eagerly awaited field guide for birdwatchers in the subcontinent.

10 July 2016 2:29 AM IST

A candid account of bifurcation

Jairam Ramesh sent me a copy of his book on the bifurcation of united Andhra Pradesh and the creation of Telangana, with...

10 July 2016 2:14 AM IST

Koodankulam’s children

The day a nuclear power plant is installed next to one of those plush MLA hostels, or an enclave where politicians have...

10 July 2016 2:08 AM IST

Images displayed at ‘Telling Stories Through Pictures’ exhibition in the city

Seriously graphic

Graphic novels are now reinventing themselves by focusing on serious issues, and entering segments like infotainment...

7 July 2016 10:10 PM IST

A Nation in Making by Sir Surendranath Banerjea Rupa Publications, pp. 448, Rs 210.

Book review 'A Nation in Making': Banerjea’s nation-A man and...

Sir Surendranath Banerjea (1848-1925), a foremost political leader of Bengal, dedicated his life to opposing colonialism...

6 July 2016 6:38 AM IST

White On Green by Richard Heller and Peter Oborne Simon and Schuster, pp. 364, Rs 699.

Book review 'White On Green' : Unravelling the enigma that is...

Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Fazal Mahmood, Intikhab Alam, the Mohammed brothers, Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Imran...

6 July 2016 6:34 AM IST

A conversation between Süddeutsche Zeitung and anonymous source John Doe.

The Panama Leak: Start of the end of tax havens

The more than 2.6 terabytes of data from the servers of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca provide an insight into the...

6 July 2016 6:29 AM IST

Grit and resilience of hill folk

Nitin Jugran Bahuguna is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi and Dehradun, with over 30 years of work experience...

5 July 2016 10:44 PM IST

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Thrill of the gruesome

Abheek Barua, chief economist of one of India’s leading banks, has stepped into the shoes of a crime fiction...

5 July 2016 10:43 PM IST