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Travelogue amid a journey

27 Jun 2016 2:07 AM IST
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...

Gayle’s autobiography as explosive as his batting

20 Jun 2016 1:39 AM IST
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...

The grumpy old man

20 Jun 2016 1:36 AM IST
“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...

An Afghan Romeo and Juliet, minus the tragic ending

20 Jun 2016 1:33 AM IST
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...

True face of Gujarat Riots

13 Jun 2016 12:59 AM IST
The author is a young though proven and fearless journalist who posed as a filmmaker from the US to go undercover and interview the state’s top...

Recalling the little coffee shop of Kabul

13 Jun 2016 12:55 AM IST
Deborah Rodriguez is back with the an encouraging insight on the lives of six women in the Return of the Little Coffee Shop at Kabul. With this long...

Independent India’s wars:A full but not a fully fair account

13 Jun 2016 12:53 AM IST
 It is also beyond dispute that India has not been well served in this regard since the heyday of Sir Jadunath Sarkar, even though it faced four major...

Memoirs of a communicator

6 Jun 2016 12:38 AM IST
One of the major aspects of the I Ramamohan Rao’s life, as a government information officer, is that having pioneered into the field of defence...

Hazards of changing history

6 Jun 2016 12:35 AM IST
But would time sweep on in the same way we anticipated or would it, be with some other mechanism that runs the universe, foil our efforts to make the...

Shashi Kapoor : An actor and a gentleman

6 Jun 2016 12:32 AM IST
His chiselled, impossibly handsome features made him a natural born matinee idol and he straddled commercial Hindi cinema of his day, producing a long...

The magic of Delhi

30 May 2016 2:52 AM IST
For anybody who has had the fortune of calling Delhi his home – either for a part or all of his life – Lingering Charm of Delhi: Myth, Lore and...

Poems that tell a story

30 May 2016 2:48 AM IST
When I sat purposefully to go through the book I received from Khaitan, I became a critic rather than being a reader. My thoughts were similar to...
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