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Is Left finally moving to the centre

Is Left finally moving to the centre

When business is as usual, the dilemma of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and, by extension, of the parliamentary...

27 Feb 2016 9:13 PM IST

Meeti Shroff-Shah

Search for the perfect romance

Like the characters in her favourite book, Pride and Prejudice, Meeti Shroff-Shah hoped to find her Mr Right in the most...

24 Feb 2016 12:24 AM IST

Anti-hero narrative

Arun krishnan’s second fictional outing is told through the eyes of the villan and set against the backdrop of...

24 Feb 2016 12:22 AM IST

Sen: Up close and personal

Sen: Up close and personal

An interview was on. Lifting a goblet of beer at a buffet, the hardcore commercial movie producer J. Om Prakash —...

20 Feb 2016 8:24 PM IST

An angry teenager

While the teen years are probably one of the most enjoyable phases of life, it can also be a period of strife, as is the...

17 Feb 2016 10:44 PM IST

Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka By John Gimlette Quercus, pp. 432, Rs 449

Living up to expectations, only in parts

John Gimlette is a winner of the Shiva Naipaul Prize and a celebrated British travel writer. The natural beauty of Sri...

17 Feb 2016 2:10 AM IST

Romancing a rock star musician

19-year-old Chennai-based Megha Rao is the author of three books, Alice: The Netherworld, its sequel, Alice: The Inferno...

16 Feb 2016 9:49 PM IST

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An angry teenager

while teenage is probably one of the most enjoyable phases of life, it can also be a period of strife, as is the case...

16 Feb 2016 9:45 PM IST

In the name of Indira, Sanjay & Congress

In the name of Indira, Sanjay & Congress

As always with President Pranab Mukherjee’s reminiscences, one is left with the nagging feeling that he could have...

14 Feb 2016 3:47 PM IST

The unpalatable story of a lost war

The unpalatable story of a lost war

Bruce Riedel’s JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, The CIA, and The Sino-Indian War —...

13 Feb 2016 8:04 PM IST

Snakes and ladders — in a bullock cart to India By Kaushik Sircar Sircar Group, First edition (2014) pp. 159, Rs 250

A tender look back into the past

The generation of ‘midnights’ children’ may love to associate their birth hour as a matter of pride...

10 Feb 2016 12:49 AM IST

Dark things By Sukanya Venkatraghavan Hachette, pp. 355, Rs 350

Of monsters and dark worlds

We have grown up listening to the stories of gallant heroes defeating monsters and the protecting the world on the cusp...

10 Feb 2016 12:48 AM IST