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‘UK Should Vacate Permanent Seat For India…’: Ex-UNSC President Kishore Mahbubani | Exclusive
As the ‘third most-powerful country’ in the world, India should get its ‘rightful place’ as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council according to ex-Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani, a former president of the UNSC. In this exclusive interview with Abhishek Singh, Deputy Editor Mint, Professor Kishore Mahbubani said, ’UK should vacate its seat for India at the UNSC’, adding further that ’it would be the most perfect reparation’. Watch.
10 Sep 2024Five Best: Books on the Roaring ’20s
Selected by William A. Everett, the author, most recently, of ‘The Year That Made the Musical: 1924 and the Glamour of Musical Theatre.’
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Sopan Joshi’s life-affirming biography of the subcontinent’s much-beloved fruit, the mango, is a classic of its kind
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Making books was once both laborious and noisome, involving hot animal glue and boiling cauldrons. Still, the books could be beautiful.
4 min read7 Aug 2024Why Viktor Frankl is the father of the self-help genre
Viktor Frankl’s 1946 book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ spawned one of the most successful publishing categories ever
5 min read4 Aug 2024Is Bal Gangadhar Tilak the original Hindutva icon?
A new biography of Tilak by Vaibhav Purandare dives into Indian politics of a century ago, the legacy of which stretches to contemporary times
7 min read4 Aug 2024Six non-fiction books you can read in a day
Resolved to read more? There may be no more rewarding genre than the short book
7 min read3 Aug 2024The Naipauls of Nepaul Street: The freedom of a chosen home
Savi Naipaul Akal’s memoir is a sweeping portrait of what it meant to be an Indian in the Caribbean in the 20th century
7 min read29 Jul 2024In Uddipana Goswami’s new book, women are survivors
Uddipana Goswami’s collection, ‘The Women Who Would Not Die: Stories’ drives home the truth of violence in Assam, experienced as personal or public tragedy
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