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Centre upgrades rank of ED acting chief Rahul Navin to additional secretary level

Centre upgrades rank of ED acting chief Rahul Navin to additional secretary level

9 Jan 2024 11:38 AM IST
The Centre has upgraded the rank of Rahul Navin, the ED's acting chief, to the additional secretary level, according to an official order. Navin, a...
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Extravagance feeding off adversities
"Thomas Manuel’s Opium Inc." | Extravagance feeding off adversities

Author: Thomas Manuel

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 595

Opium Inc: How A Global Drug Trade Funded the British Empire’ is not just a magnum opus on opium,...

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On that frightful day
"Jallianwala Bagh" | On that frightful day

Author: VN Datta

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 399

Before Dyer’s arrival, eight speakers, including Abdul Aziz, Dr Gurbax Rai and Rai Ram Singh, had...

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Musicians of Mayhem
"Escaped : True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London" | Musicians of Mayhem

Author: Danish Khan and Ruhi Khan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 399

The rift between Nadeem and Gulshan was no secret. The cassette king and the reigning musical czars...

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An unvarnished account
"Life in American Politics & Diplomatic Years in India" | An unvarnished account

Author: Richard Celeste

Publisher: Har-Anand Publications

Price: 995

At five am on Wednesday, March 6th, 1985 my phone rang. I picked up immediately. “Governor,” Marvin...

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For a greater good
"Bike Ambulance Dada" | For a greater good

Author: Biswajit Jha

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 250

Now that Karimul had a bike, he was no longer dependent on his cycle to ferry a patient. The bike...

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First signs of trouble
"The Banker Who Crushed His Diamonds" | First signs of trouble

Author: Furquan Moharkan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 350

In September 1957, a Punjabi family in Delhi was blessed with a baby boy—a boy who would go on to...

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On a formidable pulpit
"By Many a Happy Accident" | On a formidable pulpit

Author: M. Hamid Ansari

Publisher: Rupa Publications

Price: 795

Roger Sherman, a founding father of the American Constitution, had observed that ‘if the vice...

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Path-breaking decisions
"The Presidential Years: 2012-2017" | Path-breaking decisions

Author: Pranab Mukherjee

Publisher: Rupa Publications

Price: 695

The internal process of decision-making varies from government to government, and PM Modi has...

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Of light and darkness
"The Long Shadows of Life" | Of light and darkness

Author: Ramin Jahanbegloo

Publisher: HarAnand

Price: 495

The Long Shadows of Life is a collection of seventy-one poems of, an Iranian-Canadian philosopher,...

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Politics of citizenship
"ON CITIZENSHIP" | Politics of citizenship

Author: N Ram, Romila Thapar, Gautam Bhatia and Gautam Patel

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 499

India might have awakened to ‘life and freedom’ at the stroke of the midnight hour separating 14...

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Painting a picture
"Broken Lines and Rainbows" | Painting a picture

Author: Raja Chakraborty

Publisher: Hawakal Publishers

Price: 350

Raja Chakraborty’s creative repertoire includes verse collections in both English and Bengali. While...

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Religious awakening
"Making of a Hindu Patriot" | Religious awakening

Author: J.K. Bajaj and M.D. Srinivas

Publisher: Haranand Books

Price: 1995

Gandhiji’s Hind Swaraj is grounded in Dharma, which is often but inadequately translated as...

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Raw, gritty and highly engaging

"The Informer" | Raw, gritty and highly engaging

Director: Andrea Di Stefano;

Star Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Clive Owen, Common, Ana De Armas, Arturo Crasto, Eugene Lipinski

Directed by Andrea Di Stefano and adapted from Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström’s best-selling...

A technically impressive film

"‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’" | A technically impressive film

Director: JJ Abrams

Star Cast: Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega

This ninth episode of the “Star Wars” franchise is the last of the sequel’s trilogy after “The Force...

Of Shashi Tharoor’s wit and little else

"One Mic Stand" | Of Shashi Tharoor’s wit and little else

Director: Sapan Verma

Star Cast: Shashi Tharoor, Bhuvan Bam, Taapsee Pannu, Richa Chadha

Skip to episode five and watch Shashi Tharoor and Kunal Kamra’s gigs if you are in speedwatching...

Humour in a time warp

"Motichoor Chaknachoor" | Humour in a time warp

Director: Debamitra Biswal

Star Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Athiya Shetty

The biggest killjoy for a joke is a situation where you have figured out its punchline long before...

Brilliant performance nails the character

"Joker" | Brilliant performance nails the character

Director: Todd Phillips

Star Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz

For those unaware of the DC comic universe, the Joker is the supervillain who appeared in...

Laugh while it lasts

"Dream Girl" | Laugh while it lasts

Director: Raaj Shaandilyaa

Star Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Annu Kapoor, Nushrat Bharucha

Put a Bollywood leading man in a woman’s garb, and watch the box-office rock. Kamal Haasan did it in...

Engaging and tugs at your heartstrings

"Yomeddine" | Engaging and tugs at your heartstrings

Director: A B Shawky

Star Cast: Rady Gamal, Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Shoq Emara

Debutante Director, A B Shawky’s Yomeddine is a simple film that has all the trappings of a familiar...

Tried and tested formula

"Typewriter" | Tried and tested formula

Director: Sujoy Ghosh

Star Cast: Palomi Ghosh, Samir Kochhar, Kanwaljit Singh

In our childhood days, all of us believed that ghosts do exist. Firming our childhood beliefs and...

Message in a Mess

"Khandaani Shafakhana" | Message in a Mess

Director: Shilpi Dasgupta

Star Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Varun Sharma, Priyanshu Jora

Sex is not a dirty word. Khandaani Shafakhana opens with that intrepid assertion. A little over a...

It floats with hope

"Big Little Lies, Season 2" | It floats with hope

Director: Jean-Marc Vallee and Andrea Arnold

Star Cast: Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley

Unless you think of ‘The Godfather Part 2’, very few sequels are given an unconditional thumbs-up ....

Super 30 anything but super

"Super 30" | Super 30 anything but super

Director: Vikas Bahl

Star Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Mrunal Thakur, Pankaj Tripathi

The film is a biopic of Patna-based educationist Anand Kumar (played by Hrithik Roshan), a math wiz...

Smugly, aa, unrelatable kitsch

"Game Over" | Smugly, aa, unrelatable kitsch

Director: Ashvin Saravanan

Star Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Vinodhini, Ramya Subramanian

With all the trappings of its genre tropes, the film Game Over starts with a promise. But to accept...

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