William Dalrymple grants Naipaul his eminence, but challenges his jaundiced notions of Indian history
William Dalrymple
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Bin Laden to Borges, via a sleeping Buddha's dreams. But has Mishra overreached in it all?
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The British Museum celebrates India at 60 in a show of Indian art patronised by Brits before the Raj
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Naipaul's new book traverses old ground, his journey unto himself is but an ego trip, the sharp edge of his writing has turned bitter. Where's VS as we knew him?
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A striking, courageous woman, she lent herself to being a symbol. In reality, she belied the promise.
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The Nizam's legacy-reeling under the weight of its own grandeur, family squabbles, neglect and greed-springs to life again bit by bit
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Patches of anti-colonial cliche apart, the opium trade and the entire cast under its thrall breathe life into the 1830s. Ghosh's well-crafted narrative pace intoxicates.
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Pakistan's political hell wreaks... a literary spring. A comic noir typifies the new novel.
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In this pocket of Kerala, local myth fuses Goddess Bhagavati and Mother Mary into family
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The socio-cultural eddies and political winds that swirl around our greatest icon
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