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    A broken sun by Aditya Iyengar Rupa Publications India Private Ltd.Lifestyle
    Book review: Allusional narrative shows wars don't win political peace

    The period of his novels as Aditya puts it, are “set around 1000 BCE, during the Iron Age in India.”

    2 April 2018 6:34 AM IST

    Ambedkar , An overview by Rupa Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.Lifestyle
    Book review: Babasaheb's writings still a signpost to resolving...

    Dr Ambedkar's vision is enriched by trends in world history and insights of a critical insider.

    26 March 2018 6:07 AM IST

    My date with history a memoir by Suman Chattopadhyay Published by Rupa Publications.Lifestyle
    Book review:Rare take on Left's political relevance may still be grist...

    Mr. Basu had then openly denounced his party's decision as a Himalayan blunder' in an interview.

    12 March 2018 6:28 AM IST

    AN UNLIKELY CHEMISTRY, Autobiography of a CoupleLifestyle
    Breezy, illuminative narrative of a political era

    It is an amazing medley of how despite their deep differences, they shared a lucky charm.

    5 March 2018 3:20 AM IST

    The tremulous mud-slinging of the Kanchi mutt that followed the state polices investigations into the Sankararaman murder case under an earlier AIADMK regime was perhaps too much for the acharya to bear. It could go to show that politics and religion can never go together.Nation
    Dynamic seer who always stood for religious harmony

    At the age of 82, after a brief illness, the country has lost a many-sided, dynamic.

    1 March 2018 3:25 AM IST

    People wait to pay their last respects to Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, the 69th pontiff of the Kanchi Mutt, who died on Wednesday in Kanchipuram.Nation
    Dynamic seer who strived for inter-religious harmony

    Sri Jayendra had taken up the high-profile initiative to resolve the Ram temple issue in the year that marked his 50th...

    1 March 2018 1:40 AM IST

    Supreme Court asking Tamil Nadu to use groundwater wont work, says expertNation
    Supreme Court asking Tamil Nadu to use groundwater wont' work, says...

    Tamil Nadu could safely use 10 tmcft of groundwater for irrigation in the Cauvery delta areas along with the surface...

    26 Feb 2018 4:35 AM IST

    It is the story of Mythily Charis passion for understanding and helping people suffering from autism, through a fresh counter-perspective in contrast to the received notions of a disorder .Lifestyle
    Autism as the God of lost and found' after the Dec 2015 Chennai deluge

    The first book under review in these columns this week is an unusually self-reflective and emotively evocative kind of...

    26 Feb 2018 3:21 AM IST

    Farmer associations stage demonstration in Mettutheru village near Ariyalur on Friday. DCNation
    SC verdict: 60-40 gain for Tamil Nadu despite allocation cut

    On the face of it, the Supreme Court's Cauvery verdict may seem disappointing to lower riparian Tamil Nadu.

    17 Feb 2018 2:16 AM IST

    Technical experts from the basin states will have a key role in this consultative process to enable final closure of the legal process in the backdrop of the tribunals final award.Nation
    Cauvery: Tamil Nadu driven to wall again, but conciliation seems only...

    TN immediately needs at least ten to 15 tmcft of Cauvery water to save the perilously standing samba' paddy crop in the...

    12 Feb 2018 1:57 AM IST

    The Economics Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen would hardly approve of the domineering, at times despotic, functional style of Tamil Nadus former Chief Minister, J Jayalalithaa.Nation
    Budget echoes: Amartya Sen, Jayalalithaa and federalism debate

    Jayalalithaa did not live to see the second of the twin-shocks, the historic rolling out of the GST from July 1, 2017

    5 Feb 2018 3:16 AM IST

    DEVI, THE GODDESSES OF INDIA Edited by John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, Published by Aleph Book Company, 2017, New DelhiLifestyle
    Book review: When Dalai Lama backed VHP formation and other stories

    In sum, the VHP's project in the mid-1980s' was the first big one in post-Independent India to apply the principles of...

    22 Jan 2018 6:00 AM IST

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