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A Heroine For Our Times
The Girl With The DragonTattoo was a huge success story in publishing, that needs more stars like Lisbeth Salander. Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson created a heroin...
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Humanity To The Fore
There is a saying in Punjabi, Jis Lahore naivekhya o jamiya hi nai—which translates roughly as ‘He who hasn’t been to Lahore hasn’t lived.' Asgha...
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Archie's Four Lives
Paul Auster’s 4321 has made it to the Man Booker Award shortlist this year—the extraordinary 880-page tome that is as much about its protagonist Archie a...
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The Slate Wiped Clean
As life spans increase in modern times, one of the consequent risks is age-related memory loss or dementia. Alzheimer’s Disease attacks the brain and slowly wipes the me...
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Men Without Tears
For a few years now, Haruki Murakami has been in the running for the Literature Nobel; meanwhile he collects fans all over the world, with his books about modern-day Japan, wh...
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Is Love Enough?
The synopsis of the play Bas… Tum Aur Hum, asks a very important question: If marriages are made in heaven what is it that keeps them going on Earth? Th...
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The Dead Talk To Her
Patricia Cornwell’s creation, Dr Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist, gets the dead to reveal their stories as she conducts thorough post mortems on victims of crime. ...
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A Few Good Men
Some years ago Rachna Bisht Rawat wrote a book called The Brave, about the 21 men from the armed forces, who were awarded the highest military honour, the Paramveer Chakra. Th...
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So Close To Life
Reading Elizabeth Strout makes you realise just how tough it is to be simple. Her prose is precise to the point of austerity, but she still manages to create richly evocative ...
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Marriage-Go-Round
The North Indian pre-wedding ritual of the Ladies Sangeet, at which women gathered together to sing (some raunchy songs) an dance, minus the men. The custom has been...
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