Books
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Weaving the mystery of Kuldhara legend with threads of fiction
By Ananya Das Book: The Legend of Kuldhara; Author: Malathi Ramachandran; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages 280; Price: Rs 395 The…
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Bookends: Adherence, denunciation and inspiration: Freud and his legacy
By Vikas Datta It is the great, not necessarily correct, but disruptive ideas about human nature and the world that…
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What we owe to literature: A global odyssey across the centuries
By Vikas Datta Title: The Written World – How Literature Shaped History; Author: Martin Puchner; Publisher: Granta Books; Pages: 433;…
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‘The RTI Story: Power to the People’ a memoir-cum-textual tome
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Book: The RTI Story: Power to the People; Author: Aruna Roy with the MKSS collective; Publisher: Lotus…
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The future of liberal arts in the digital world
By Saket Suman Book: The Fuzzy and the Techie; Author: Scott Hartley; Publisher: Penguin; Price: Rs 599; Pages: 301 There…
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AFSPA slap on face of Constitution, Supreme Court, Parliament
By Aroonim Bhuyan Title: Strangers No More; Author: Sanjoy Hazarika; Publisher: Aleph; Price: Rs 799; Pages: 420 With the Union…
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The ignored, inconvenient truth about the Islamic State
By Vikas Datta Title: The Way of the Strangers – Encounters with the Islamic State; Author: Graeme Wood; Publisher: Penguin…
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‘Return to Jammu’ : A coming of age novel with autobiographical interludes
By Mohammed Shafeeq Book: Return to Jammu; Author: V. Raghunathan; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India; Price: Rs 399; Pages: 346 This…
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Marx: A discredited theorist or a far-sighted prophet?
By Vikas Datta A huge statue of Karl Marx was unveiled in his birthplace in the German city of Trier…
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Book Review: Unspoken wisdom that only megaliths can impart
By Kishori Sud Title: The Archaeoastronomy of a Few Megalithic Sites of Jharkhand; Author: Subhashis Das; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages:…
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