Category: Reviews
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Book Review: Raw Umber – A Memoir
‘Some of the boxes had never been opened. The viscous oil colours dried up and hardened, and the tight caps were difficult to unscrew. Raw Umber, Gamboge, Cobalt Blue, Scarlet Lake, Ultramarine…,’ says Sara Rai, speaking of the tubes of paint her father – of whom she writes at length and with great affection –…
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Book Review: Just Aspire – Notes on Technology, Entrepreneurship and the Future
The background:Back in 1975-76, Ajai Chowdhry, a young engineer from Jabalpur left a stable, secure job with DCM Data Products and joined forces with Shiv Nadar and four other associates to set up a company that would design and manufacture computers; Hindustan Computers Ltd. (HCL) was born. Remember, this was back in the day when…
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Book Review: A Life in the Shadows
His name is Dulat. Amarjit Singh Dulat. And as a former head of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), which handles things like, among others, foreign intelligence, counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, and managing security for the country’s nuclear programme, he’s the real deal. In addition to garden variety bureaucrats and politicians, Dulat has, in the course of…
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Must-Read Books on Hindustani Classical Music
Calcutta-based Rebanta Gupta, who loves Hindustani classical music, presents his essential reading list for fans of this particularly fascinating genre of music. My cousin Sharanya seems to have always harboured an antipathy towards Hindustani classical music since his childhood. When he was five or six, he once saw me practicing my vocal lessons one evening…
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Train to Pakistan
Aryaman Agarwal writes about one of Khushwant Singh’s most notable works of fiction, a novel roiling with emotion and tragedy, and as relevant today as it was in 1956, when the book was written Set in 1947, Khushwant Singh’s novel Train to Pakistan brings back the horrors of the India-Pakistan partition. The story is based…
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