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Chronicle of deaths foretold
11 May 2013 4:37 PM ISTWhen Premchand’s Godaan (The Gift of a Cow) was first published in 1936, it was hailed as a brilliant evocation of the rural-urban divide of...
Rage against the bias machine
4 May 2013 3:53 AM ISTThat the Indian news industry is a many-headed beast accustomed to extreme levels of self-contradiction is not unknown. The national media –...
Risqué romance and Austenprose
28 April 2013 5:25 AM ISTWe have come a long way since Jane Austen first published Pride and Prejudice in 1813 and the British literati heaved sighs soaked in 19th century...
Risqué romance and Austenprose
27 April 2013 4:40 PM ISTVintage British awkwardness, once a virtue, has now been supplanted by brazen approach & publishing houses have come up with ‘sexed up’ versions...
Notes on a bombing scandal
23 April 2013 5:12 AM ISTAs news reports and expert analyses on the Boston Marathon blasts kept pouring in since the heinous incident rocked the world on 15 April, a strangely...
City of shadows & whispers
13 April 2013 4:37 PM ISTIn his book of essays Clearing A Space, Amit Chaudhuri – literary critic, essayist, novelist and now city-memoirist – recounts that by the time of...
Curtains down: Britain’s Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher dies at 87
9 April 2013 5:46 AM ISTFormer British prime minister and the poster girl of Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher, has died following a stroke. She was 87. Considered as one...
Peace fictions from America
8 April 2013 5:34 AM ISTThat the Orwellian paradise called United States of America has a massive public relations machine called Hollywood is nothing new, but the collusion...
All that Theobabble!
6 April 2013 4:52 PM ISTA staunch atheist accustomed to reading, and often agreeing with, the likes of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Chris Hitchens, The Aum Of All...
SC denies cancer drug patent to Novartis
2 April 2013 6:25 AM ISTIn a judgement hailed as ‘historic’ by the government, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the patent plea by the Swiss pharmaceutical company...
Things Fall Apart: Africa’s literary grandmaster Achebe dies at 82
23 March 2013 7:16 AM ISTChinua Achebe, Africa’s jewel and the globally venerated Nigerian writer, statesman and dissident, who birthed modern African writing with his...
Holy merchants of austerity
19 March 2013 5:01 AM ISTThe irony of humility is that it shows only in the background of great riches, and we manage to locate it only when it appears more brilliantly in the...