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Sisir was close to his uncle Subhas and helped him escape his home imprisonment in India. “Uncle Subhas’s habit of working till very late was known to...

With India’s recent bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group failing not only due to the opposition of China, but also due to issues raised by members...

The challenge to Indian democracy has always come from those who hate democracy as an idea, those who preach intolerance towards the country’s...

The killer seems to have a childlike mind full of deadly pranks. The display of a corpse on the highest tower of the city makes his intentions crystal...

Providing one such account of a childhood in the Raj’s waning years is journalist and author Brigid Keenan.Known for her witty and colourful accounts...

Veteran journalist Shantanu Guha Ray’s Fixed! Cash and Corruption in Cricket is a sweetly-timed stroke, to use a cricketing analogy, for it has...

These women have “challenged belittling stereotypes and become exceptional role models, not only for their compatriots but women elsewhere”.The...

All he has is his own body, which he must use to earn a livelihood. And, as for the body of the Dalit woman, it is very easy for it to be seen as an...

Can life be ever defined in a definite manner? The book at hand tries to emphasise that life is a “dangle”. What then would be this dangle? The...

I’m weird, I’m a weirdo. You think you know me? You don’t know me.” Chris Gayle begins his autobiography Six Machine in a typically in-your-face...

“Once Ove and the cat have had their dinner and watched TV for a while, he turns out the lamp in the living room and goes upstairs. The cat follows...

Ali and Zakia, who reached the US in the last week of May hoping for asylum, were no ordinary refugees fleeing violence or penury, but forced to...