books
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Six customised cocktails for the litfest season
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
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The QWERTY clatter from the street-typists of India has not yet been drowned by digital documents
Chirodeep Chaudhuri
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Seven delicious graphic memoirs to end the year with (and wipe out the bad memories of 2016)
Devapriya Roy
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Immigrant fiction about Indians moves to Australia, and about time, too
Anu Kumar
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Once a diplomat embroiled in controversy, Devyani Khobragade is reinventing herself as a writer
Neha Bhatt
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Podcast: To preserve its history, India must start protecting its old books and manuscripts
Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian
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How demonetisation has hit book sales (and what might happen at next month’s book fairs)
Neha Bhatt
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Are paper books better for children or e-books? The answer is more complex than you think
Nicola Yuill, The Conversation
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A new Zadie Smith, a new set of difficulties in reading, a new pleasure
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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When Rajasaurus and other dinosaurs roamed the land where Indians live now
Pranay Lal
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Why ‘hygge’ is the go-to concept for happiness that has spawned an entire publishing genre
Devapriya Roy
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Did you know the beloved author of ‘Pippi Longstocking’ also documented the horrors of World War II?
Anu Kumar
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Marriage and the devil both play prominent roles in this new comic novel from Sri Lanka
Ashok Ferrey
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Namita Gokhale’s new novel of the Himalayas reminds us that history cannot be separated from fiction
Rakhshanda Jalil
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What a first-time writer learnt about how to make a bestseller in India
Anu Vaidyanathan
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Shiv Visvanathan on the importance of being (and thinking like) Devdutt Pattanaik
Shiv Visvanathan
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Why we can continue to like VS Naipaul’s novels while opposing his ideas
Rifat Munim
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This novel from Indonesia tries to undo a myth from the Mahabharata
Laksmi Pamuntjak
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Ruskin Bond’s Miss Ripley-Bean is back, to investigate unnatural deaths
Ruskin Bond
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The story of the other East India Company: a Dutch enterprise in Ceylon (gorgeous images alert)
Smriti Daniel