Book Excerpt
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How Nasir Husain saw the nightclub as a fun spot rather than a vice den
Akshay Manwani
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Pakistani writers are expected to represent their country – and maybe they don't have a choice
Mushtaq Bilal
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The exact moment when film star Rekha became a villain in vermilion (and it wasn’t in ‘Silsila’)
Yasser Usman
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The things that used to happen at Mumbai parties (and it’s not very different now)
Ajith Pillai
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What happened when Draupadi visited New Delhi with her girlfriends
Trisha Das
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Gulzar: ‘Words should amaze or amuse, only then will listeners want to understand the song’
Nasreen Munni Kabir
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First read: Amitav Ghosh asks why novelists don’t write about climate change
Amitav Ghosh
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First person: Things we had to do to get a guest into a prime time NDTV show
Renee Chandola
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Confessions (though he calls them lessons) of a self-styled ‘pick-up artist’
Dave Besseling
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How Telangana and Seemandhra fought for Hyderabad (and how the battle was won)
Jairam Ramesh
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Billionaires can be both good and bad. Ruchir Sharma shows how to tell them apart
Ruchir Sharma
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One Raj family left India after Independence with fear and uncertainty, not joy and relief
Brigid Keenan
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How everyone – the state, corporations, and even some ‘Maoists’ – gains from Maoist insurgency
Rohit Prasad
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Is this the most gruesome murder in Indian crime fiction?
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
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‘Defeating’ India and ‘controlling’ Afghanistan have been the goals of Pakistan’s Jihad industry
Raza Rumi
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There’s no choice but to market your own book aggressively, Amish tells aspiring writers
Mala Mary Martina
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How Indian science stopped being fun and turned into a formula
Shiv Visvanathan
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First read: How Semah made her mother discover her father’s trysts in colonial Calcutta
Simon Choa-Johnston
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From a real Goan bakery: You've never eaten (nor read about) poee like this
Saee Koranne-Khandekar
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When Veerappan gave two wildlife filmmakers wisdom on cruelty towards elephants
Krupakar and Senani