Books
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India, Pakistan were poised to sign peace treaty, but US played spoiler
By Vikas Datta New Delhi–India and Pakistan had agreed on a peace and no-war treaty and were on the verge…
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Bookends: Tales of love, greed and travel
How strong is the opposite attraction? Here is a tale of two extreme people from different professional world meeting –…
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Book: Indira Gandhi was changing bedcovers after 1971 war began
New Delhi– A day after the India-Pakistan war erupted in 1971, then prime minister Indira Gandhi was so cool that…
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Nayantara Sahgal: I resent what Hindutva is doing to Hinduism
By Preetha Nair Dehradun– Hindutva is a brand of fundamentalism and the Hindu right wing is distorting what Hinduism stands…
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Bookends: Ample romance, stories of power and beauty
New Delhi– Flick through an exciting school romance, the difficult love affair of a ballerina, the struggle of a girl…
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Book: Bird population threatened like never before
New Delhi– Bird population in India and across the world faces unprecedented threats, a new book says. “Feathers of Vellayani”,…
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Sanskriti Book Fair and Theater Set for April 24th in Concord
CONCORD, MA–Calcutta Club USA and The Boston Pledge will host the Sanskriti Book Fair and Theater on Sunday, April 24th,…
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Writing poetry for the common people – and film superstars
By Vikas Datta One problem a layman has with appreciating Urdu poetry is that their vocabulary may not encompass its…
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Bookends: Spirited Investigations: The Stories of the Occult Detectives
By Vikas Datta Remember “Ghostbusters”? The 1984 film about three parapsychologists taking on supernatural phenomenon in New York sparked off…
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Writing is intellectual, photography emotional: William Dalrymple
By Mudita Girotra New Delhi– For William Dalrymple, the author of books like “City of Djiins”, “In Xanadu” and “White…
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