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Book Review | Magical and unfinished, ‘lost’ novel leaves mysteries...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the world’s greatest story tellers, died in 2014. Ten years after his death his children...

12 May 2024 12:56 PM IST

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Book Review | Tale of two (or more) Delhis cinematic, but inexact

To bring to life this city as an experience is, perhaps, what Aishwarya Jha attempted to do, within the narrative she...

12 May 2024 12:50 PM IST

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Book Review | Rao unshackled the elephant, reforms took on human face

Those were anxious, tumultuous days. The last decade of the twentieth century was ushering in great changes in the...

12 May 2024 12:46 PM IST

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Book Review | A Candid Memoir: Duvvuri Subbarao's Journey from IAS to...

Subbarao, Subba as we call him, is my IAS batchmate. I still recall vividly the first time I met him on that mid-July...

7 May 2024 10:22 PM IST

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Book Review | Covid patient muses about state of the nation

In the intensive care unit of the hospital, the professor has a senior nurse, Shiny, to look after him. She has her own...

4 May 2024 12:10 PM IST

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Book Review | Woman-led juicy whodunit packs a bionic punch

There are four simple knock-out tests for whodunits: Does it make you wait till the very end to discover who did it? Can...

4 May 2024 11:31 AM IST

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Book Review | Knife-edge of an artist’s vision cuts through fear and...

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is not only Rushdie’s account of that violent act — it is also his way of...

4 May 2024 11:25 AM IST

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Hyderabad to Host World Literature Event, Focusing on Work from Latin...

Hyderabad: The fourth edition of the World Literature Workshop, dedicated to aficionados of Latin American literature,...

4 May 2024 1:36 AM IST

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Ambitions of an enigmatic king

Babur: The Chessboard King provides compelling insight into author's journey of researching and writing about Babur and...

3 May 2024 6:58 PM IST

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Book Review | Lutyens media versus Laurels media

Essays in this anthology show how regime uses tamed media as ideological militia to intoxicate masses with...

3 May 2024 5:18 PM IST

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Book Review | ChatGPT lies, but the AI genie is out of the bottle

The difficulty is not the training itself but how exploitative it is. It’s done by large numbers of people in low-wage...

27 April 2024 5:22 PM IST

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Book Review | India, essentially liberal? If not, should we celebrate...

Has the Liberal project of the 1990s suffered an irreversible decline? And should one lament its passing? The author...

27 April 2024 1:32 PM IST