Besides the extortionist nature of the electoral bonds scheme, at its heart is the government’s desire for complete control.

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Tastes of the earth

Disarmingly honest, Food Journeys is very different from the gushing food books that come out every second day.

Anusua Mukherjee

Another ‘India Out’ campaign, this time in Bangladesh

The anti-India campaign after Sheikh Hasina’s re-election now shows signs of dying out because of the ambiguity of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

While you are asleep, your brain flushes out waste

Cash-strapped NASA may gradually shut down Chandra Observatory and researchers developed a device which produces high-intensity radiation.

R. Ramachandran

Brinda Karat: Communist with a bindi

Characterised by a lack of self-indulgence, this memoir narrates a story that describes her mission to end exploitation in the world.

Maps of the mind

Reading Jayant Kaikini’s stories, one feels the pull of Mumbai, a city one can hate but never escape from.

Close encounters with the third kind

Dream Machine: AI and the Real World is a praiseworthy attempt to create a hybrid narrative fusing polemic, meditation, and fiction.

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