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Sócrates, the chain-smoking football genius
The book captures the insouciance, glory and contradictions of former Brazilian captain's life
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Helping hands behind India's urban glitz
Book review of 'Maid in India: Stories of opportunity and inequality inside our homes'
Public institutions under scrutiny
Book review of 'Rethinking Public Institutions in India'
Bin Laden after 9/11
Book review of 'The Exile: The stunning inside story of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in flight'
A land of bombastic claims
Book review of 'Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation'
Russia's accidental anarchists
Book review of 'The Russian Revolution: A New History'
Jairam Ramesh on Indira Gandhi, the environmentalist
Jairam's new book is a thorough documentation of former PM Indira Gandhi's love for nature
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Want to spend lone time with books? Here are the three best weekend picks for you
Michael Crichton's 'Dragon Teeth' is based on the rivalry between real-life paleontologists Cope and Marsh
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Kolkata's Muslim 'ghetto'
Book review of 'Margins of Citizenship: Muslim Experiences in Urban India'
Deconstructing economic policy
Economics of India - How to Fool All People For All Time by Madan Sabnavis
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Doing business in start-up India
Book review of Alan Rosling's 'Boom Country?: The New Wave of Indian Enterprise'
Travels with a freedom fighter
Book review of 'Whispers of War'
Terrorism after Bin Laden
Book review of 'Anatomy of Terror'
The fallacy of the 'Muslim World'
Book examines the historical background that has shaped misleading idea of a monolithic community
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CIA's first secret war
Book review of 'A Great Place to Have a War'
Flexing filmy muscles
In May, Aamir Khan-starrer 'Dangal' became the highest-grossing film in China this year
Novel of utmost power
Book review of 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'
Arundhati Roy's second novel is a powerful elegy for a bulldozed world
Nilanjana S Roy reviews The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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Kautilya's legacies
Book review of 'Kautilya's Arathashastra: An Intellectual Portrait'
Crude truths in the Gulf of Mexico
Book review of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea