| V V: The Great Depression, 1929, and us |
21-NOV-09 |
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Because of the close parallels between the current global financial crisis and the Great Depression, 1929, it is no wonder that there is no end to books on what we need to do now — or what it really meant then and who was responsible for the meltdown. |
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| Look at the dark side |
21-NOV-09 |
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Partition in Bengal, despair in Delhi and power games in Tudor England: three new books to read. |
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| Simplifying a complex financial saga |
18-NOV-09 |
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In a way, it all began on the 16th of March, 2008, when Bear Stearns, “the smallest but scrappiest of Wall Street’s Big Five”, fainted in the arms of JP Morgan with the US Treasury acting as matchmaker and priest. |
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| The man who'd map consciousness |
17-NOV-09 |
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Only the steady tide of readers overflowing into the aisles of the Gulmohar Hall indicated that this was not just another book discussion at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi. |
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| Bhima speaks |
14-NOV-09 |
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An outstanding English transcreation of a classic Malayalam book gives us an intimate,“perspective” Mahabharata through the eyes of the second Pandava. |
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| V V: Berlin Wall, 1989 and after |
14-NOV-09 |
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All successful publishers and authors have an impeccable sense of timing and generate literature with an eye upon the calendar. |
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| Emotional response to murderous apathy? |
13-NOV-09 |
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Jarnail Singh, a Sikh journalist who acquired a celebrity status after the shoe-throwing incident at a press conference addressed by Home Minister P Chidambaram on April 7, 2009, has exercised unusual caution while narrating the incident that made him a hero for large sections of the Sikh community. |
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| The time traveller's life |
07-NOV-09 |
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He is a raconteur and a writer with a painful brand of honesty, says Nilanjana S Roy about Ved Mehta’s life/work in progress. |
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| Letter, spirit |
07-NOV-09 |
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Deprived of finer speech, my chief utterance while reading van Gogh’s letters was: “Oh, this is brilliant. |
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| BSNL's rise and fall |
05-NOV-09 |
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A couple of decades ago, when more good people were leaving India Today magazine than joining it, Aroon Purie asked a departing colleague, who’d just given him the usual spiel you give while resigning, “If I’m the best boss around, why is everyone leaving? |
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