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Literary icon Robert Gottlieb, who edited Joseph Heller's 'Catch 22' Bill Clinton's 'My Life', passes away at 92Gottlieb died Wednesday of natural causes at a New York hospital.- What’s not on Rishi Sunak’s to-do list? Ending racismSunak’s biography (he moved straight from Oxford to Goldman Sachs and then Stanford University and hedge funds) belongs quintessentially to...
- British composer Monty Norman, known for James Bond theme, passes away at 94Norman was hired to compose the theme for the first James Bond film, 'Dr. No' in 1962.
- Barbadian writer George Lamming, a literary giant who chronicled Caribbean colonial experience, dies at 94His calling was to address the crimes of history, unearth and preserve his native culture.
- Power plays that arise from power ploysAvoiding electricity outages is tough, so, we convert it into political opportunity.
- OBIT: A Rhodes scholar & math graduate, Girish Karnad, found a way to express creativity with wordsThe author worked with Oxford University Press from 1963 to 1969.
- View: In 2014, it was the Chowkidar and Chaiwala. What will it be in 2019?Since the Prime Minister will be the centrepiece of the election, the question is: what does Modi 2019 stand for?
- Blyton to Naipaul: A Million Noddys NowBoth writers have more in common than Aug 11, succinct sentences being just one
- Why VS Naipaul never wrote his autobiographyAccording to Naipaul, fiction never lies and reveals a writer totally. But an autobiography, he felt, "can distort; facts can be realigned".
- Jaipur Literature Festival 2015 diariesAt the launch of his son Rohan’s dream project, Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI) at the Jaipur Literature Festival last week, he loo...
- The Panache meme: Thumb and dumberIn other news, Facebook is contemplating a ‘dislike’ button. Your selfies and other revolutionary opinions might suffer. You have been warn...
- Girish Karnad not the only one to aver that some Nobel laureates are undeservingHe would not be alone in pointing out that Nobel selectors often fall short of expectations when it comes to choosing laureates.
- A billion selectors for Indian cricket teamEveryone in the country selects the Indian cricket team and, still, it plays.
- Bihar voters respond to economic incentives, just like everywhere elseWith the results of the Bihar elections in, it may be time to slay that mythic dragon of Indian politics : 'anti-incumbency' .
- Go cold turkey, for god’s sake!A friend who attended a workshop of Overeaters Anonymous says it is possible for any ravenous soul to eat much less than he or she usually ...
- Happy Diwali! from darkness to lightDiwali is celebrated not just in India but in S'pore, K'Lumpur & elsewhere.
- Criminalised politics and GDP growthIndia is experiencing record economic growth and record criminalisation of politics at the same time.
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