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'Over 500 job losses due to liquor ban in Bihar'

2 April 2017 2:21 PM IST
On April 5 last year, the Nitish Kumar government had declared Bihar a dry state imposing a total ban on sale and consumption of alcohol including India Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) with immediate effect.
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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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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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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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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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Crisis on multiple fronts
"Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis" | Crisis on multiple fronts

Author: Arun Kumar

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 499

By mid-March, the government realized that a lockdown had become inevitable to control the spread of...

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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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Of universal appeal
"Suralakshmi Villa" | Of universal appeal

Author: Aruna Chakravarti

Publisher: Picador India

Price: 650

From the author of Jorasanko and Daughters of Jorasanko, comes another novel Suralakshmi Villa. This...

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Towering intellectual contributions
"How to Read Amartya Sen" | Towering intellectual contributions

Author: Lawrence Hamilton

Publisher: Penguin India

Price: 499

There are a number of ways in which freedom is central to the work of Amartya Sen. Right across his...

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The end of autonomy
"The Battle of Belonging" | The end of autonomy

Author: Shashi Tharoor

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 799

As I have noted, Prime Minister Modi likes to practise what American generals call ‘shock and awe’....

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In her own voice
"Lata Mangeshkar in Her Own Voice" | In her own voice

Author: Nasreen Munni Kabir

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 695

Nasreen Munni Kabir (NMK): In which year did you move to Bombay? Lata Mangeshkar (LM): In 1945....

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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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Abuse of greatness
"Bahawalpur: the kingdom that vanished" | Abuse of greatness

Author: Anabel Loyd

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 599

Salahuddin Abbasi’s view of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is epitomized by Stanley Wolpert’s opening remarks...

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Innocuously amusing, yet strangely unmoving

"Jojo Rabbit" | Innocuously amusing, yet strangely unmoving

Director: Taika Waititi

Star Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Sarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen

Director Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, a spoof of World War II, is a bittersweet comedy that is based...

All about Marvelous Ms Brosnahan

"The Marvelous Mrs Maisel 3" | All about Marvelous Ms Brosnahan

Director: Amy Sherman-Palladino

Star Cast: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle, Tony Shalhoub, Kevin Pollak

It must be the law of averages, really, how Season Three pales in comparison to Season two, which in...

A fun watch

"Pati Patni Aur Woh" | A fun watch

Director: Mudassar Aziz

Star Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar, Ananya Panday

The interesting thing about the reimagined “Pati Patni Aur Woh” is its setting. Version 2019 is...

Good performances in a cursed plot

"Hexing" | Good performances in a cursed plot

Director: Christophe Lenoir

Star Cast: Dominique Swain, Ketan Anand, Emma Eliza Regan, Adam Weafer, Zeb Moore, Alicia Mairead Gerrad, Camille Solal, Nigel Mercier, Shane Robinson, Conor Marren, Michael Parle

It’s been a while that I saw Hexing, a horror-drama, and, seriously, even after vexing my grey...

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...

Netflix’s silliest feature to date

"Tall Girl" | Netflix’s silliest feature to date

Director: Nzingha Stewart

Star Cast: Ava Michelle, Luke Eisner

Hold on! In a world plagued by problems such as nuclear warfare and cancer we are supposed to...

‘Posham Pa’ doesn’t tempt us to invest in its scummy characters

"Posham Pa" | ‘Posham Pa’ doesn’t tempt us to invest in its scummy characters

Director: Suman Mukhopadhyay

Star Cast: Mahie Gill, Sayani Gupta, Ragini Khanna

It is heartbreaking to see how much Sayani Gupta and Mahie Gill have invested into their characters...

Frothy adventure

"Dora and the Lost City of Gold" | Frothy adventure

Director: James Bobin

Star Cast: Isabela Moner, Eva Longoria, Danny Trejo

Despite a strong cast, clean fun with the perils of adventure and teen angst, Director James Bobin’s...

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 ....

The Lion King is visually fascinating

"The Lion King" | The Lion King is visually fascinating

Director: Jon Favreau

Star Cast: Donal Glover, Beyonce, James Earl Jones

For the uninitiated, The Lion King, is the story of Simba, a lion cub, who is dispossessed and made...

Kataria’s ‘noble’ debut

"Noblemen" | Kataria’s ‘noble’ debut

Director: Vandana Kataria

Star Cast: Kunal Kapoor, Ali Haji, Mohommad Ali Mir

If I say ‘all boys boarding school’, the first thing which might come to your mind is bullying. And,...

Chopticks: A big let down

"Chopticks" | Chopticks: A big let down

Director: Sachin Yardi

Star Cast: Abhay Deol, Mithila Palkar and Vijay Raaz

There is a vast difference between smart cinema and smart ass cinema. The latter is designed by...

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