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What influences led architect Balkrishna Doshi to design ‘a campus with no doors’?
Parul Sheth
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Policy decisions, photography and the octopus: When Rajiv Gandhi and family visited Lakshadweep
Wajahat Habibullah
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Book excerpt: How Parveen Babi disarmed (and alarmed) journalists during her early years in showbiz
Karishma Upadhyay
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Former Indian Air Force pilot Gunjan Saxena in her own words: ‘I will not disappoint you’
Gunjan Saxena with Kiran Nirvan
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When Shakuntala Devi interviewed a closeted man about to be married: ‘I’ve a duty towards my family’
Shakuntala Devi
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How the movies celebrated Mahatma Gandhi, who thought that cinema was ‘a sinful technology’
Narendra Kaushik
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Floyd Cardoz on the joys of Indian food: ‘So much to discover, so much to acknowledge’
Floyd Cardoz
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This is the book for which the Sanatan Sanstha filed a Rs 10-crore defamation suit – and lost
Dhirendra K Jha
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Mandira Bedi’s secret to fitness: ‘Be kind to yourself and yet, firm in resolve’
Mandira Bedi
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How a cafe owner and Rajiv Gandhi contributed to Ramanand Sagar’s blockbuster TV show ‘Ramayan’
Prem Sagar
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How Doordarshan used foreign visits and public meetings to sell Rajiv Gandhi as a ‘man of action’
Amrita Shah
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How Bollywood ‘Bad Man’ Gulshan Grover suffered through Hollywood: ‘You became a face in the crowd’
Gulshan Grover
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1980s revisited: How the VCR changed my social life and made me a Very Important Person
Janhavi Samant
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Catch me if you can: The American smuggler who left Indian police red-faced twice in the 1960s
Abeer Kapoor
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When Lisa Ray auditioned for a James Bond film: ‘What am I doing here?’
Lisa Ray
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Kababs, kulfis, qormas: Forgotten recipes from Shah Jahan’s kitchens get a second life in this book
Salma Yusuf Husain
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How sensational interviews and photo shoots fuelled Sanjay Dutt’s bad-boy image
Ram Kamal Mukherjee
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How SD Burman became as famous as the singers he worked with despite his thin, nasally voice
HQ Chowdhury
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When a ‘trembling’ VVS Laxman was made to stand on a chair and address his teammates ahead of debut
VVS Laxman
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A nose for crime: How a Mumbai cop solved the kidnap of ‘Shakti’ producer Mushir Alam
Isaque Bagwan