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Trapped in a messiah complex

17 Feb 2014 2:48 AM IST
The country is going through tough times. Poverty, sickness, mismanagement, corruption and misgovernance are rampant and almost omnipresent....

Tiny window with too hazy a pane

3 Feb 2014 3:25 AM IST
Instead we get a compilation of his ‘achievements and accolades’ during his tenure at the post. The book is divided into varied chapters that unravel...

Prisons can’t bind the prisoner

3 Feb 2014 3:23 AM IST
Shawshank Redemption was the first thought that came to my head when I was done reading Omar Shahid Hamid’s The Prisoner. Honestly, it was a strange...

City, Shitty, Bang , Bang

2 Feb 2014 3:16 AM IST
Like Indrajit Hazra, I was born and bred in Kolkata. Unlike him, I was a bokhate chele (mildly put, a wayward boy) and have lived the city not through...

City, Shitty, Bang , Bang

2 Feb 2014 3:16 AM IST
Like Indrajit Hazra, I was born and bred in Kolkata. Unlike him, I was a bokhate chele (mildly put, a wayward boy) and have lived the city not through...

City, Shitty, Bang , Bang

2 Feb 2014 3:16 AM IST
Like Indrajit Hazra, I was born and bred in Kolkata. Unlike him, I was a bokhate chele (mildly put, a wayward boy) and have lived the city not through...

The meek shall inherit

27 Jan 2014 3:40 AM IST
Blanche Dubois says in A Streetcar Named Desire – ‘Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.’ Ironically that very...

Gods, guns and Tibet

19 Jan 2014 10:30 PM IST
It’s a story about how far apples of the same tree can go on falling off the branches, but it’s also a story about how the parent tree remains central...

Riding to hell and back

13 Jan 2014 3:56 AM IST
Do you have a dream? One which doesn’t let you sleep and keeps you on your toes almost every waking minute of your day? Are you ready to go to any...

Nostalgia, an alpha bait

13 Jan 2014 3:43 AM IST
Sikkim is back on the literary map. After a scintillating debut with The Gurkha’s Daughter, a short story collection that brought us closer to life...

‘Thriller is a niche waiting to be filled’

6 Jan 2014 3:13 AM IST
What prompted you to write The Treasure of Kafur?Indian history presents an enormously rich treasure trove of events and personalities spanning...

Eavesdropping on love and death

6 Jan 2014 3:08 AM IST
Poetry is a bit of dying. A poet dies many times writing a line that enriches life, bathes it with new-found meaning, gives it love and memory to...
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