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By Chandrahas Choudhury 12:02 AM | August 25,2007
This Asian contender for the Booker Prize shortlist is about the darkness and suffering intrinsic to a parent-child relationship
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 01:05 AM | August 18,2007
Christopher Hitchens is at his acerbic best in this new book that argues why god is man-made
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 12:32 AM | July 28,2007
Tidbits from the Raj days including pre-1947 India’s most famous love affair—this is a real insider’s account
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 12:10 AM | July 21,2007
An insider’s detailed and dramatic account of Iraq after the US invasion
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 12:46 AM | July 14,2007
This collection affirms why Jawaharlal Nehru’s writings ring true in 21st century India
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 12:48 AM | June 30,2007
A voyager and a mathematician are out to solve cosmic puzzles in this best-seller
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 12:47 AM | June 30,2007
The new biography of Shane Warne, by Simon Wilde, again a British journalist, just about does justice to the cricketer but not to the man
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 01:37 AM | June 23,2007
Jaded middle-class characters abound in these satirical short stories set in Nepal
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 12:27 AM | June 16,2007
A tour of its people and cinema, this book is an antidote to the axis-of-evil tag attached to the country
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 12:15 AM | June 09,2007
Free of solutions and sermons, this political memoir on the Israel conflict has exciting twists in the tale
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 12:13 AM | February 24,2007
This hardback version of Kalidasa’s Shakuntala is for the erudite as well as the lay readerWorld lit
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By Chandrahas Choudhury 01:51 AM | February 17,2007
In Mira Kamdar’s eyes, the new India is a “laboratory for the world”. She proves it with rigorous research and detatched analysis
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