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An elegy for a new Nepal This review was supposed to open with a good little gloat about India as “the foreign hand”. Then I re-read the relevant pages of Manjushree Thapa’s new book of essays and reportage on Nepal, and realised that India’s covert role in Nepali affairs amounts to, by and large, shooting itself in the foot. Support the king and the status quo; oops. Support Nepal’s army against
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
A couple of years ago, pop pundit Malcolm Gladwell gave us Blink, his much-talked about theory on why we really don’t need to think too much, because – according to him –
Shelly Walia: Gains in translation
At the end of the book, Rakhshanda Jalil makes an honest admission. “A translation can never equal the original,” she writes, explaining that there is always an “inevitable
Nothing unusual about it!
First the disclaimer: Don’t try to draw broad business lessons from this book. The problem with books like Richard Branson’s Screw Business As Usual is that they are as much
A life hidden behind adjectives
The cloud of adjectives that has come to hover over the Republican candidate Mitt Romney in news reports is familiar by now: smooth, smart, slick; detached, disciplined, dogged; pragmatic, protean,
High life on Shuklaji Street
What is it about Mumbai that makes it such fertile ground for writers looking for inspiration? Suketu Mehta comes readily to mind but think of all the other writers before and since in whose |
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