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The Sangh’s Fixer
THE COUNTRY’S MOST IMPORTANT politicians and industrialists walked into a brightly lit hall in Chennai on 18 January 2015. Among them were the senior ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Piyush Goyal, M Venkaiah Naidu and Ravi Shankar Prasad, and t
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The Bookshelf
PP Raveendran The book presents a critique of modernity within Indian literature of the last two centuries. It looks at the aftermath of colonialism, print capitalism, translation, realism and ideas surrounding the region and the nation, as well as f
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Through Their Eyes
A tiny turtle moves through garbage, as the camera languidly pans to follow its slow crawl. In the background, the city’s traffic hurtles across relentlessly, a blur of noise and unrestrained movement. It is a comparative snapshot of pace, the chaos