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| Small revelations |
| Fiction isn’t only about the shock of recognition |
| I’ve just seen The Namesake, Mira Nair’s adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel. For those who haven’t read the book or seen the movie, this is the story of a young Bengali, Ashoke Ganguly, who leaves for America in the early Eighties with his wi... |
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| Hold your tongue |
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Sir — Rahul Gandhi, a member of parliament from Amethi, obviously has no understanding of the poli ... |
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| PACKING UP |
| Fallen rulers, especially of the dictatorial kind, routinely go into exile. That is not quite the case with either Begum Khal...|
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| THE MISSING FACE |
| To be written about in reports and surveys, and be forgotten in the real world, seems to be the fate of a great number of chi...|
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| Pretty as a picture |
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Guangzhou is beautiful and depressing. Its old district, home to many colonial-style buildings dating from the days of Canton... | Read.. |
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| Way of the crumbling cookie |
| Politics is often defined as a trade that thrives on sentiments and superstitions rather than rationalism. This would certainly ring true of Uttar Pradesh politics today, v... |
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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
— SALMAN RUSHDIE
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