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'I think of myself as Indian in a sense that includes Pakistan'

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He's one of the subcontinent's most exciting literary talents. His new book 'Noon' explores violence in South Asia. Son of Pakistani politician Salman Taseer, assassinated after defying Islamist groups, Aatish Taseer speaks with Srijana Mitra Das about nations, truth, lies and ties that bind - or break - people...

Sunday times exclusive extract

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Sahil Tabassum once said to me, ‘I like a book to have a beginning, a middle and an end.’ I thought to myself...mine cannot be that kind of book. The gaps in my life were too many, the threads too few...

Quickies catch on

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When an IIT graduate wrote a bestseller that also became an award-winning movie, he inspired a legion of young authors. The result?..

Having job blues? Engage your boss

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Low-performers usually look for a boss who will treat every employee equally. A boss who doesn’t know who is doing what, where, why, when or how, a boss who doesn’t keep track and ignores performance problems...

Opium of the Empire

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Amitav Ghosh digs out a hidden part of the Raj history in a compelling story..

Tudor queen who was a kingmaker

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Overshadowing a large chunk of the 15th century, The War of the Roses raged in England for a shade over 30 years as the descendants of Edward III divided themselves into Yorkists (white rose) who traced their line back to Edward's youngest son, Edmund Duke of York, and Lancastrians (red rose) who traced their line back to Edward's second son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster...

The mystery behind art of the matter

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Why is it that in the historical art galleries of painting - or of sculpture, for that matter - only a very few women are represented?..

Literary suns make up while Hay shines

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V S Naipaul makes up with Paul Theroux even as he falls out with women at the literary festival...

Portrait of an actress as a sensitive woman

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Enthralling , engrossing, enticing . Unsurprising for a book whose subject is the supremely beautiful Madhubala. This biography is a good read for those who know little about this gifted actress. Written in an easy, fluid style, with captivating black and white photographs, "I Want to Live" is almost plaintive in its title...

Obsessive love in the time of email

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The epistolary novel, which consists of letters exchanged between two or more people, is one of the earliest novel forms and is successful for two main reasons...

'They mocked me because I didn’t know who Lionel Richie was'

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Biting — yet sensitive. He’s a study in contrasts. Just like his books. Writer Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 with his novel “White Tiger”. In the first interview given globally over his new book “Last Man in Tower”, Adiga now tells Srijana Mitra Das about being a small-town boy, falling in love with Mumbai, capturing the people and philosophies rich India overlooks, writing being his fate, generating controversy — and why he might just step away now...

If he had reached Delhi...

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Grandnephew Sugata Bose tracks Netaji’s life in a brilliant biography..

Quick takes on new titles

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Pellerin was head of astrophysics at NASA for a decade. He was held responsible for launching the $1.7 billion Hubble telescope with a flawed mirror...

WW-I comes alive

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Famous fictitious characters have been made and marketed by thrillers...

Market goes from pyramid to pot-bellied

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When an advertising professional starts to tell the India Story, expect an interesting take. Chief strategy officer at Bates 141 India, Dheeraj Sinha, says in the introduction to "Consumer India" that his account is "from the playing field, not the sidelines."..

Trains, Towers & Temptations...

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Masterji followed the men through glass doors on to a rectangular balustrade terrace, where the sea breeze blew into his hair...

Wilde imagination: Oscar as Holmes

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Imagine Oscar Wilde, the famed playwright and poet, in the mold of a Sherlock Holmes or a Hercules Poirot. That’s precisely what author Gyles Brandreth does - make a convincing detective out of Wilde even as he remains faithful in his portrayal of him as an aesthete and a bohemian with his flamboyant style and acerbic wit...

Will twihards bite into vampire fare?

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This is probably the book that twihards have been waiting for...

Chasing Osama

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Tom Clancy rode the wave for nearly two decades with stunning success because he mastered the balancing act between the believable and the outlandish...