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The Making of Shatranj Ke Khiladi: The master and the bania
A more comprehensive picture emerges in this book, an accumulation of recollections and letters written and received by the film's producer
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: The colonial experience
This book covers the period up to 1914
What's to be done about Hindutva
Book review of 'Hindutva Rising'
When democracy dies not in darkness but in dysfunction
Book review of 'Democracy and its crisis'
Upinder Singh's research talks about political violence in ancient India
Author's work credibly establishes myths about pervasive non-violence in the said period
 "Upinder Singh's research talks about political violence in ancient India")
What Trump can learn from a Gold Star family
US President's delay in reaching out to the families of American soldiers killed in Niger is a reminder of the controversy involving Khizr Khan
 "What Trump can learn from a Gold Star family")
Penguin Fever: Early spring for book lovers
A special edition of Penguin Fever to mark the 30th anniversary of the publisher got some of its best writers together in Delhi
 "Penguin Fever: Early spring for book lovers")
Learning the start-up ropes
If 2014 was the year of euphoria, 2016 was time for a reality check, the writers say
Nerds in action
Video games are considerably trickier to produce, minute for minute, than films
A history of getting war wrong
Book review of 'The Future of War: A History'
The case for the Rohingyas
Book review of 'The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide'
Stalin, ideologue and opportunist
Book review of 'Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941'
Like a rolling stone
Book review of 'Sticky Fingers'
 "Like a rolling stone")
Why Bengalis think they matter
A charming and serious book is leavened by a very Bengali sense of humour
 "Why Bengalis think they matter")
To sell is human
'Sell' probably wasn't intended to be your go-to book on selling... [but] to rid the salesman of the image of that poor guy toiling for attention
Richard Branson's convenient truths
He calls Facebook's and Google's plans to provide internet globally via drones and balloons 'bizarre'
Satya Nadella's word file
Book review of 'Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone'
The long and the short of it
A novel, in the end, is nothing more than a bunch of fabrications told around a kernel of truth
The first totalitarian
Book review of 'LENIN: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror'
The body politik
Sen-Handley does not shrink from a rigorous and unsentimental assessment of her sexual forays and missteps
 "The body politik")