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A wondrous tale of India
The best-selling story of a rollicking French adventurer during the Sepoy Mutiny captures one of the many ideas of India in an English translation 149 years after it was first published
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China's 'heihazi' crisis
One Child documents in horrific detail how the single-child policy disrupted Chinese society in brutal and unimaginable ways
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Modern India, traditional remedies
Aarathi Prasad's book provides a good idea of how the two worlds co-exist happily
Plain tales from the UPA
In India Rising Ravi Velloor leans towards the politician's view and picks the general election of 2004 and the subsequent theatre that went into the choice of Manmohan Singh as prime minister to weav
T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Launch my ire
After all, Rs 500 - which is usually around what the books cost - for a meal with unlimited scotch is not a bad deal. Or even for unlimited tea, coffee, biscuits, sandwiches and pakodas, for that matt
The case for euro reform
Mr Stiglitz's main point is that for the euro to work its nation-states will have to function more like American states
Haldiram's: A Marwari success story
Pavitra Kumar's book not only traces the tremendous growth of Haldiram's but also tells us why the Marwari business community is so successful
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Remembering the Nazi hunters
The work of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, instituted by the Allied victors after the war, is regarded as a valiant, if flawed, effort to bring Nazi leaders to book for these and ot
From the Kayasth kitchen
Anoothi Vishal's latest book, Mrs LC's Table, traces Kayasth culture through its food
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Indian history as a moveable Feast
Colleen Taylor Sen's chronicle of the evolution of the Indian diet contradicts several myths about the subcontinent's culinary traditions
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