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Mukund Padmanabhan

Mukund Padmanabhan is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the newly established Krea University. He is the former Editor of The Hindu, appointed to the post in 2016 after having been Editor of the business daily, The Hindu Businessline, a sister publication from the same group. As a journalist, Mukund has written extensively on literary, legal and political subjects. The Great Flap of 1942, a narrative history centred around World War II, is his first book. 

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Helmut Schippert

The People’s Envoy: How Helmut Schippert made Chennai his canvas

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Inscriptions in Tamil on the northern outer wall of the Brihadeeswara Temple in Thanjavur.

Genre-bender: review of The Tamils — A Portrait of a Community by Nirmala Lakshman

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William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple: India had a much larger footprint in the world than even Indians realise

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Author Salman Rushdie at the presentation of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in Frankfurt. His wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths is in the background.

Review of Salman Rushdie’s Knife: ‘When somebody wounds you 15 times it definitely feels very first-person’

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Actors Tom Burke (as Cormoran Strike) and Holliday Grainger (as Robin Ellacott) in the TV adaptation of the Strike series.

Seven Strikes, still not out | Review of ‘The Running Grave’ by Robert Galbraith

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The young protagonist finds refuge in the game of squash that, in some ways, becomes a metaphor for her life.

Squash and heartache | Review of Booker-shortlisted ‘Western Lane’ by Chetna Maroo

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People hold placards protesting the anti-terror bill of the then Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines, in 2020.

Review of Maria Ressa’s How to Stand up to a Dictator: Beware the bot mob

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At over 1,000 pages, The Ink Black Heart is arguably a little too long, but the reader is well rewarded for staying until the very end

Review | Clever characterisation and suspense mark Robert Galbraith’s ‘The Ink Black Heart’

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Singhvi thinks that lawyers don’t exist to assess or judge their clients. “I respectfully disagree with Gandhiji (who had strong views about who to represent),” he quips.

Noted lawyer Abhishek Singhvi recounts eight significant cases in his book From the Trenches

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The township’s galaxy master plan

Auroville and the price of perfection: Akash Kapur on his new book

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‘Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020’ review: The real and the imagined

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William Dalrymple on 'The Anarchy' and the cunning of the East India Company

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Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ review | The league of ingenuous gentlemen

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S. Muthiah, historian and columnist, in Chennai. Photo: S. Thanthoni.

A tribute to S Muthiah

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