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Bihar Minister confirms that the state tops among all states in reducing poverty

Bihar Minister confirms that the state tops among all states in reducing poverty

22 July 2023 2:00 PM IST
Bihar has topped among all states in reducing poverty as it witnessed a significant decline in the number of poor people from 51.89 per cent of...
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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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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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Stories of steel and gunpowder
"The Maharaja of Jodhpur's Guns" | Stories of steel and gunpowder

Author: Robert Elgood

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 4500

The Mehrangarh Museum Trust at Jodhpur has preserved the historic monuments and artefacts of the...

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India’s irrepressible gadfly
"Rebels with a Cause" | India’s irrepressible gadfly

Author: TT Ram Mohan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 599

In early 2014, Arundhati Roy wrote a lengthy introduction to one of B.R. Ambedkar’s most powerful...

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Indo-China relations Soft Power conundrum
"One Mountain Two Tigers: India, China and the High Himalayas" | Indo-China relations Soft Power conundrum

Author: Shakti Sinha

Publisher: Pentagon Press LLP

Price: 795

Soft Power has moved from being an academic concept to a political buzzword, particularly in the...

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Curtailing autonomy & eliminating personhood
"Fearless Freedom" | Curtailing autonomy & eliminating personhood

Author: Kavita Krishnan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 299

To call Kavita Krishnan’s Fearless Freedom radical would be regressive given her brutal account of...

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Finding facts in fiction
"The Book of Indian Kings" | Finding facts in fiction

Author: Romila Thapar, William Dalrymple, Salman Rushdie, Kushwant Singh

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 399

History and historians are a world to themselves at least to the lay readers. Naturally, Indians...

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Superhuman River : Stories of the Ganga
"River that yields gold" | Superhuman River : Stories of the Ganga

Author: Bidisha Banerjee

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 499

The unknown Bird in the cage... how does it fly in and out? —Lalon’s verse ‘Unknown Bird’ ...

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Of loss and resilience
"Plassey: The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History" | Of loss and resilience

Author: Sudeep Chakravarti

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 799

In the Ain-i-Akbari, a record of administration during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar, what...

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In between lines
"Off the Shelf" | In between lines

Author: Sridhar Balan

Publisher: Speaking Tiger

Price: 350

Off the Shelf is a book about books. And that is great. A real proof of how far humanity has come as...

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Agitating the chessboard
"Mapping the Great Game" | Agitating the chessboard

Author: Riaz Dean

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 599

The Great Game has an interesting place in history. During its course, its players considered the...

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Exposing hostility
"The Windrush Betrayal" | Exposing hostility

Author: Amelia Gentleman

Publisher: Guardian Faber

Price: 1513

The story of The Empire Windrush ship which docked on the British shores in June 1948 with 492...

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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 ....

Powerful and compelling

"City Of Dreams" | Powerful and compelling

Director: Nagesh Kukunoor

Star Cast: Priya Bapat, Sidharth Chandekar, Eijaz Khan and Vishwas Kini

What starts off seeming to be a take-off on Mani Ratnam’s most recent political drama Chekka...

Fascinating, nerve wracking thriller

"Free Solo" | Fascinating, nerve wracking thriller

Director: E Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin

Star Cast: Alex Honnold, Jimmy Chin, Dierdre Wolownick and Sanni McCandles

The first shot of this documentary is disorienting as well as jaw dropping. The top angle shot, with...

‘Criminal Justice’ better than ‘Sacred Games’

"Criminal Justice" | ‘Criminal Justice’ better than ‘Sacred Games’

Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia and Vishal Furia

Star Cast: Vikrant Massey, Pankaj Tripathi, Mita Vashisht, Jackie Shroff and Pankaj Saraswat

Only 15 minutes into this crime drama, and I was hooked. This, despite having seen the BBC series of...

A slow, immersive character-driven film

"“First Man”" | A slow, immersive character-driven film

Director: Damien Chazelle

Star Cast: Ryan Gosling, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Ciaran Hinds, Christopher Abbott, Patrick Fugit, Ethan Embry, Lukas Haas, Shea Whigham and Pablo Schreiber

Based on the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen, this film directed by...

Go for Gold

"“Gold”" | Go for Gold

Director: Reema Kagti

Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kunal Kapoor, Amit Sadh, Mouni Roy, Vineet Kumar Singh

There is something to be said about motivational sports films. They make you stand and cheer even...

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