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Hunchprose: Hoskote's poems offer a bastion of truth in a post-truth world
In our post-truth world, where the difference between fact and fiction collapses too easily, poetry is the last residue of truth, capable of excavating histories or creating new ones.
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Rising from ground zero
Book review of Karunanidhi: A Life
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A broken relationship with nature
Book review of Wild and Wilful: Tales of 15 Iconic Indian Species
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Beyond the sarkari diktat
Book review of Method in the Madness: Insights from My Career as an Insider Outsider Insider
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On second thoughts
Book review of Think again: The Power of Knowing What you Don't Know
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The making of constitutions
Linda Colley, an eminent historian of Britain, she focuses on one critical component of democracy - constitutions
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The first Sikh king's last wife
Ms Divakaruni's book is a path-breaking, poignant, exhilarating and almost surreal account of the little-known Jindan Kaur
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Coolies on the frontline
Book review of The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict (1914-21)
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A start-up survival guide
Book review of The Fail-Safe Start Up
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Innovation at warp speed
Book review of The Ventilator Project
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The threats of 'Western Universalism'
Book review of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds
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Edward Said: An 'intellectual' biography
Book review of Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
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Chronicle of crises foretold
A book on the drought in Marathwada offers a compelling preview of the human and environmental costs of poor policy-making, caste inequalities and globalisation
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Ode to an era
Book review of Enter Stage Right: The Alkazi / Padamsee Family Memoir
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Supreme Court as change agent
Book review of Supreme Court
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Lockdown taught the poor atmanirbharta
Book review of Locking Down the Poor
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Nepal's uneasy balancing act
Book review of All Roads Lead North: Nepal's Turn to China
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Robotic futures
Book review of GENIUS MAKERS: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
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The Emergency's legacies
The authoritarian streak in Indian politics had been growing long before 1975 and its influence may have actually increased, the authors of an authoritative book on this seminal period suggest
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The case of the 'Parsee' killer
Book review of The Mystery of The Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji And The Case Of The Foreigner In The English Village
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