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Sub-continental drift

A 'deep natural history' of the Indian subcontinent will reorient the way you see the land

English, the mongrel tongue

May We Borrow Your Language? examines the linguistic peculiarities of English

Review: An Unsuitable Boy is honest, reads like a good Karan Johar movie

Karan Johar's, first film, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was a huge hit in India and the overseas market

Surviving a survival guide

The best thing about the book is that the author is obviously a very competent writer

How David became Goliath

The secret of Israel's military success

Cat calls

The memoir traces Scott's journey

The colonial impulse

The Theft of India: The European Conquests of India, 1498-1765

The creation of India Inc

Goras and Desis: Managing agencies and the making of corporate India

Nilanjana S Roy: The reading life

Reading never died as a habit, despite the doomsayers, but it changed form

Geography made America great

Earning the Rockies: How geography shapes America's role in the world

Mihir S Sharma: Jaipur and the India we are

Every year, I return from JLF with my hope in the possibility of that India a little renewed

Jim Kelly: The other Clinton

Tomasky's contribution is to remind us just how much Clinton did accomplish during his presidency

Lahore at the crossroads

Ian Talbot and Tahir Kamran have produced an empathetic guide to a remarkable city

Big data: Big concerns

Cathy O'Neil brings in interesting human stories to explain risks of indiscriminate use of big data

Note ban sung blue

Demonetisation: The Economists Speak is a collection of articles written by noted Indian economists

South Asia's zero-sum war

Regarding the Mumbai attacks, MacDonald tells us that the CIA turned a 'blind eye' to the LeT's role

Yes he did

Jonathan Chait argues that Obama's accomplishments will survive

Dwight Garner: The stuff of burning desire

Nicotine, is the relapse cigarette

Sacred laissez-faire

An economist makes a cogent argument for a free market in belief and religion

Don't lean in, write your own rules

If women want to get ahead, they might have to build their own system