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Pak writers are so good, it’s scary

Pak writers are so good, it’s scary

How good is this book It’s so good you don’t want to look at it. It’s so good it’s scary.

15 Nov 2010 12:12 PM IST

Fast action, flaky plot

Fast action, flaky plot

Andy McDermott’s archaeologist heroine Nina Wilde is back.

15 Nov 2010 12:08 PM IST

A date with chastity

A date with chastity

The sort of guys 28-year-old Sass likes are the kind who ask her out. Period. To say that her standards are low would be...

15 Nov 2010 12:06 PM IST

Trapped in a nightmare

Trapped in a nightmare

This book made me think deeply about reincarnation, and I now know very clearly that I want none of it!

15 Nov 2010 12:05 PM IST

In search of a revolution and a commode

In search of a revolution and a commode

A shot rings out in the red light district of Sonagachi in Calcutta. A bullet, carrying “its own convoluted...

12 Nov 2010 12:40 PM IST

Listening to Obama’s America

Listening to Obama’s America

Several years ago, when my son was in his first year in a college near Philadelphia, I phoned him for one of my weekly...

12 Nov 2010 12:38 PM IST

Eight angry sisters

Eight angry sisters

The Peripheral Centre is an ambitious book. As the back flap explains, “it seeks to give voice to the many issues...

21 Sept 2010 6:16 PM IST

A bandy-legged warrior

A bandy-legged warrior

Halli Sveinsson loves to hear stories from the days when the valley was a wild and dangerous place, besieged by...

21 Sept 2010 6:11 PM IST

Schools, other fault lines

Schools, other fault lines

Raghuram G. Rajan’s Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, is an attempt to explain...

21 Sept 2010 6:05 PM IST

Flashback 2009: In Pilibhit with Varun

Flashback 2009: In Pilibhit with Varun

NDTV journalist Sunetra Choudhury travelled widely across the country, including to constituencies in remote areas,...

30 April 2010 9:34 PM IST