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Reading recommendations from a pandemic year Poets and politicians, sportsmen and theatre personalities look back at 2020 through the books they read Updated: December 20, 2020 12:12:44 pm Here are the books authors read this year. (Source: Getty Images) Aruni Kashyap writer I think everyone in India should read Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits (2020, Simon and Schuster) — it is an urgent and topical book set in an India of the future, a work of speculative fiction. I don’t read a lot in this genre, but I think speculative fiction has the ability to caut...

Top news of May 6| J-K: Ceasefire violation by Pakistan along the LoC Top news of May 6| J-K: Ceasefire violation by Pakistan along the LoC Twitter Is Buzzing With News Alerts From India And Rest Of The World. Here Are The Latest Updates From The Micro-blogging Site In One Scroll News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Arshi Aggarwal | Updated on: 06 May 2017, 11:06:27 PM New Delhi: Twitter is buzzing with news alerts from India and rest of the world. Here are the latest updates from the micro-blogging site in one scroll #11:00 PM J&K: Ceasefire violation by Pakistan...

ISSUE DATE: December 28, 2020 UPDATED: December 18, 2020 23:42 IST Saffron ire: A Vishwa Hindu Mahasangh protest against ‘love jihad’ and religious conversions in New Delhi, Nov. 8 The Uttar Pradesh police, on December 2, stopped a wedding between a 24-year-old Muslim man and a 22-year-old Hindu woman in Lucknow’s Duda Colony. The ceremony was to be solemnised as per Hindu rituals and had the consent of both families. The police, who were acting on a complaint by a vigilante group, asked the couple to seek the district magistrate’s nod for their marriage. Official permission for inter...

Last modified on Mon 1 Feb 2021 10.10 EST In 1988, Pankaj Mishra was a would-be writer in Varanasi, north India, whiling away his days reading the American critic Edmund Wilson. In books such as Axel’s Castle and To the Finland Station, Mishra detected a temperament he could aspire to: erudite, self-assured, swiftly able to read between the lines of a book into the author’s worldview and the wider social and historical milieu, “a man wholly devoted to reading and thinking and writing”. But years later, trying to write on Wilson, Mishra realised that he had nothing new to...

Books Rohit Warrier, Founder and Director, Warrier Safe Shields loves to read biographies of successful people. "I find them inspiring. There is loads to learn from their journeys and their learning as they forged ahead in life. Recent books that I read fall in this category too. Steve Jobs – By Walter Issacson, Elon Musk- Tesla, Space-x and the quest for a fantastic future – by Ashlee Vance, On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist – by Clarissa Ward," he told ET Panache. From Steve Jobs, Warrier learnt something that Steve Jobs claims to have learnt from his father (Paul Jobs) an...