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May the odds be ever in your favour

10 March 2014 5:20 AM IST
Series. Something we always associated with television, but then books happened. The irony however is that these series gain momentous popularity the...

Repackaging the Mahatma

10 March 2014 5:05 AM IST
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is an integral part of the Indian consciousness, if such a thing ever existed. School curriculums have played a part in...

Interpreter of curable maladies

3 March 2014 3:45 AM IST
T SR Subramanian – with an insider’s insight and outsider’s rage – has made a frontal attack on the ills of Indian government and bureaucratic setup...

Myth, and a little something

3 March 2014 3:44 AM IST
Tell us about yourself. How did you start writing?I have been writing since childhood. Apparently, when I was asked the all important ‘what do you...

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...
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