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      <title><![CDATA[Hobsbawms melancholy empathies]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Eric Hobsbawm&#39;s proud assertion that &quot;as an Englishman&quot; he thinks of South Asia when immigrant influences are being discussed recalls Harold Abrahams, the Cambridge undergraduate in Chariots of Fire, who ran to overcome anti-Semitic prejudice.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dan Brown cracks the code]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[From the first sentence of Chapter One - &quot;The memories materialized slowly&hellip; like bubbles surfacing from the darkness of a bottomless well&quot; - to the last - &quot;The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars&quot; - it&#39;s wincingly clear that we are in Dan Brown Land.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The good book on the baddies]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[About five years ago, journalists started becoming figures of ridicule in Hindi films.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Islam defended too loud, too late]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Anne Norton, a distinguished American academic, has deliberately given her book a 19th-century title: she believes that just as the Jewish question was central to the debate relating to the Enlightenment in the 18th- and 19th-century Europe, so is the Muslim question now &quot;the axis where questions of political philosophy and political theology, politics and ethics meet&quot;.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The gray man]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[During the Vietnam War, Bill Colby of the Central Intelligence Agency ran the Phoenix programme, which set out to &quot;neutralise&quot; the Viet Cong by capturing or killing them.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The tyranny of goodwill, logic]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Spotting the Christ-figure is a great fixation of modern literary criticism of fiction.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ferguson in the book]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It was news that all Manchester United fans had been dreading for years.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lost in translation]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It isn&#39;t easy to write short stories.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Saving the farm]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[You could be one of two.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/savingfarm/515510/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[The ascent of man]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[May 29, 2013 will mark the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest by a New Zealand beekeeper and an Indian Sherpa climbing with an expedition financed by Britain.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-ascentman/515371/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:26:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The fountainhead in Af-Pak]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In September 2011, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen, told the US Senate that the Haqqani network &quot;acts as a veritable arm&quot; of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan&#39;s powerful intelligence agency.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-fountainhead-in-af-pak/515148/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 21:15:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gandhis legacy]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Alan Flusser, the American designer whose books included Making the Man, Style and the Man and Dressing the Man, would have loved the sartorial sub-text of Mushirul Hasan&#39;s tribute to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[In this war, the enemies are on all sides]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A Delicate Truth, John le Carre&#39;s new thriller, is anything but delicate: it&#39;s ponderous, heavy-handed and obvious - everything that his wonderful early Smiley novels, which traded in moral ambiguity and psychological nuance, were not.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/in-this-warenemies-areall-sides/514772/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 21:25:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The missing philanthropists]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India&#39;s growth is often compared with China&#39;s.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Have story, will tell]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I can&#39;t say I am naturally drawn to autobiographies, especially those self-promoting retrospectives by film personalities or artistes and those written by sports icons who have just overcome some debilitating disease or social trauma and position their stories as testaments of hope.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:26:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Formatting a world with no secrets]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Picture this rosy scenario for your high-tech future: you awaken because your curtains open automatically, your coffee maker starts brewing and your bed administers a subtle hint in the form of a back massage.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Modi under modification]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Biographies of individuals who could end up as the prime minister of India have begun making their appearance in a pre-election India gripped by political uncertainty.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[New ideas in an old framework]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Talking about the limitations and the potential of capitalism is the flavour of the season.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mr Bernankes <i>glasnost </i>]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[After playing peekaboo with the public and legislators for decades, central banks are finally discarding their multiple veils.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[We are all salesmen]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[If you meet freshly minted MBAs or even graduates, it is quite common to hear some of the brightest among them make one thing clear: that they would be open to anything but a &quot;sales&quot; job.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[We the activist people]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Several people of our generation became part of civil society as 20-nothings in the early 1980s when they stepped out from campuses to join marches championing various causes.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Quality matters, especially for fakes]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In this excerpt from his latest novel, written in the form of a self-help book, Mohsin Hamid provides an instructive course in the art of running a small, illicit business.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Inside  the list]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Paulo Coelho, the elfin guru of a novelist who unleashed The Alchemist on the world, is at No.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Good reading on the menu]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Characters, like eels, are slippery beings.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:25:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Buying on autopilot]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In the story Cigars of the Pharaoh, Tintin is rescued by a ship&#39;s captain while floating in the sea in a coffin (after being thrown in by the bad guys).]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The survival of Pakistan]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;Every country has a military, but Pakistani military has a country,&quot; so goes a popular adage in Pakistan, which says something about the tremendous power of the armed forces in that country.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-survivalpakistan/512209/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Evolution of a sanskritist]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Wendy Doniger makes two interesting confessions at the start of this book - a compilation of 63 selected essays, condensed into 43 chapters and distributed under seven broad segments to ensure ease of reading and thematic integrity.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Creators amid the predators]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[With so much churn in the capitalist world, it might be time to wonder if capitalism has failed.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Naked truths about banking]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that we now know that we don&#39;t know.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How the other half gives]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Is it possible that a book that claims to trace the evolution of American capitalism to the present as part of the effort to understand philanthropy skirts the system&#39;s near-death moments five years ago?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chavez deconstructed]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On March 5, Hugo Ch&aacute;vez&#39;s extraordinary good luck ran out at last.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The power and the glory]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[To say that Why Nations Fail is an ambitious book would be like saying the Indian Ocean has some water in it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:48:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Deathly tales]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This week, Scottish science fiction (SF) writer Iain Banks announced on his website that he has late-stage gall bladder cancer and only a few months to live.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[That seventies show]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Who were Gillanders Arbuthnot, Jardine Henderson and Andrew Yule?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The great Indian soap trick]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Remote Control is a good title for a book on the media.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The mindbugs within]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[If the women-should-stay-at-home club is looking to expand, this reviewer would promptly volunteer.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A man of his time]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Karl Marx depicted in Jonathan Sperber&#39;s absorbing, meticulously researched biography will be unnervingly familiar to anyone who has had even the most fleeting acquaintance with radical politics.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The talkative Indian]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The United Nations declared 1979 as the year of telecommunications, but it took India another 15 years, long waiting lists and a paralytic telecom system to introduce a National Telecom Policy in 1994 aimed at breaking the dirigiste monopoly.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Indias Tolkein invokes the spirit of Shiva]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[From fantastic landscapes to the swashbuckling adventures of larger-than-life characters, The Oath of the Vayuputras has it all.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fact as fiction]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[An idyllic childhood is usually not the stuff of a great book.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[To Russia, without love]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The feminist Russian punk band Pussy Riot, some of its members recently imprisoned, stands for many things, notably opposition to the policies of Vladimir Putin.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A gift of wings]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The immobilised nation]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Is Pakistan a failed state?]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The return of the prince]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Your tumour may not be Sachin Tendulkar, but Virat Kohli it is.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Publishing circles are abuzz with talk of an authorised biography of Ratan Tata in the works.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chess (#1037)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Candidates is just short of the halfway stage.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/chess-1037/508020/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some years ago, a conversation with Ehsaan Noorani, celebrated music director in the Indian film industry, veered towards the journey of composing songs.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Unsafe at any cost]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[At 1.23 a m on April 26, 1986, a sudden and unexpected power surge in reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine triggered a series of explosions, blowing away the reactor&#39;s roof.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/unsafe-at-any-cost/507547/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[In Business Sutra: A Very Indian Approach to Management, Devdutt Pattanaik has constructed a massive and intricate edifice by drawing extensively on mythology, mainly based in ancient India, but also in other parts of the world.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mythillusory-formulas/507347/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[How sweet it is]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[There is a certain enlightened segment of America that relishes a good gastro-scolding, whether delivered gently by a Michael Pollan (&quot;Eat food.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/how-sweet-it-is/506986/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Jugaad 2.0]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[At a time when consumers in the West are being prepped for Google glasses and smartphones treat voice calls almost like an afterthought, the Indian concept of jugaad or street-smart quickfix seems counterintuitive.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/jugaad-20/506728/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[A wave of grief]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[&#39;This is the saddest story I have ever heard.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-wavegrief/506731/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chinas fragile powerhouse]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Chinese success story is often a potent, and convenient, weapon in the hands of India baiters.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/china\s-fragile-powerhouse/506595/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[A lived story of the Kashmiri Pandits]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The tragic story of modern day Kashmir has always symbolised different things to different audiences.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-lived-storythe-kashmiri-pandits/506452/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[The virtues of undervaluation]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The question is quite interesting, unlike what textbook economics will tell you: can playing around with the exchange rate in the right manner encourage growth?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-virtuesundervaluation/506269/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Yes, you can]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It&#39;s a lesson that comes through loud and clear in Sheryl Sandberg&#39;s new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/yes-you-can/505984/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Rajat Gupta guilty? Does it matter?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[First things first.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/is-rajat-gupta-guilty-does-it-matter/505733/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:46:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Random variables in the Northeast]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Che in Paona Bazaar could have been better written.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/random-variables-innortheast/505588/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Self-help for procrastinators]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Had he not been procrastinating, this book may never have been written.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/self-help-for-procrastinators/505421/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[South Asias <i>Encyclopaedia Mammalia</i>]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[India, indeed all of South Asia, is a fascinating place for naturalists, with unparalleled diversity of habitats and biomes supporting incredibly varied, and often endemic, life forms.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/south-asia\s-encyclopaedia-mammalia/505273/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Love and ambition in a cruel new world]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Mohsin Hamids 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, was an artful tour de force, a lapidary monologue delivered by a young Princeton-educated Pakistani that opened out to become a puzzlelike exploration of identity, and a suspenseful, post-September 11 meditation on the nervous, mutually suspicious dynamic between America and the Muslim world.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/loveambition-incruel-new-world/504988/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[You may be familiar with Khushwant Singh's novels (Train to Pakistan, Delhi), works of history and short stories; what you may not know is that in 1967, Singh wrote a biography of Lala Shri Ram of DCM (1884 to 1963).]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/lowbook-value/504730/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Inside the heart of darkness]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This is not a story that one expects from an age that is connected so densely through the internet and social media.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/insideheartdarkness/504390/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:20:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bring up the royal bodies]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Now we are informed that Hilary Mantel's book sales have skyrocketed post-Kategate.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bring-uproyal-bodies/504191/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Calcutta &amp; Kolkata]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Calcutta&", the city Amit Chaudhuri writes about, is a place you won&rsquo;t find anywhere on the map &mdash; it ceased to exist in 2001 when it was renamed &ldquo;Kolkata&".]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/calcuttakolkata/503709/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:18:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[If anyone had the right to be called a public intellectual in the United States, it was Professor Ronald Dworkin, the legal and constitutional scholar who died last week.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/moral-force/503713/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[There have been many ways to think about Abraham Lincoln, the most enigmatic US president, but the image of him as a moral philosopher is not the most obvious.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/a-lincoln-for-our-time/503593/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[<i>Mahabharata</i> 101]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The more things change, the more they remain the same.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mahabharata-101/503426/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:30:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Karu was a grocery shopkeeper in Puthukkudiyiruppu when Sri Lanka&rsquo;s 26-year-long civil war was nearing its end.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sri-lanka\s-unfinished-war/503268/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:20:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the realm of luxurious pictorial books for the coffee table, the focus has been on India&rsquo;s architectural heritage, varied crafts and, perhaps, &ldquo;moments&" from daily Indian life.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/india-incthe-coffee-table/502676/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Diplomatic facts and fiction]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How does one categorise a book that declares on the title-verso page: &ldquo;This is a work of fiction.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/diplomatic-factsfiction/502406/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:27:00 +0530</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Governing the global village]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Kishore Mahbubani has long been a cheerleader for the alternative to Western dominance.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/governingglobal-village/502249/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[When dancing ended, and disaster set in]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The title of Alan S Blinder&rsquo;s highly readable new book on the financial crisis (yes, a readable book about economics) refers to an infamous remark made in July 2007 by Charles O Prince III, then the chief executive of Citigroup.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/when-dancing-endeddisaster-set-in/501869/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Doing one thing as a way of not doing something else is an effective tool for habitual procrastinators, and creating the To-Do list is a good way to go about it, says John Perry, Stanford philosopher and winner of the 2011 Ig Nobel prize for literature.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/to-do-or-not-to-do/501630/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Santiniketan The home and the world]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This offering is a welcome addition to books on &ldquo;Brand Santiniketan&" that, despite the falling standards of Rabindranath Tagore&rsquo;s Viswa Bharati University, continues to draw visitors not only from all over India but from across the globe.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/santiniketan-the-homethe-world/501633/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[In the heart of Maoist darkness]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Truth and honesty, as interrelated as they are, are difficult to find in southern Chhattisgarh.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/inheartmaoist-darkness/501479/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Giving more capital to a bank is like giving another bottle to a drunk; you know what will happen, but you don&rsquo;t know which wall it will happen against - Euromoney The book under review is by a banker with great experience in his field and academics.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/banking-forbraveheart/501292/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[War by other means]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For the counterinsurgency experts of a century ago, the extension of European empire into the Middle East offered exciting possibilities.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Picks of February]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In his fourth novel, Nadeem Aslam appears to be at the height of his powers, his prose as molten, clear and beautiful as just-blown glass.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/picksfebruary/500761/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[If a healthy vegan lifestyle is what you&rsquo;re aiming for, will you seek advice from the portly film director David Dhawan?]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-vegan-diaries/500743/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Post these letters, Jeeves, old bean]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Writing to his agent in 1935, the comic novelist P G Wodehouse (1881-1975) proposed an essay about literary criticism that he planned to call &ldquo;Back to Whiskers&".]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/postletters-jeeves-old-bean/500642/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s the famous story of Gallaher, the global tobacco company, which tried to market its Silk Cut cigarettes to an ethnic Chinese market in the 1980s.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/from-mao-to-mcdonald\s/500528/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Many lost horizons]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Since ancient times, Mumbai has been muse to writers, poets, artists and filmmakers from across the world.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/many-lost-horizons/500393/</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, the title of Al Gore&rsquo;s ambitious, drily written new book, sounds like a snoozy think-tank talk.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/the-world-according-to-mr-gore/500098/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[In Nehrus centrist furrow]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A thick Bengali accent (&ldquo;shapotaar&" for supporter) isn&rsquo;t usual for scholars such as Guha describes.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/in-nehru\s-centrist-furrow/499980/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[Man smart? Woman smarter!]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brown mans burden]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite all the talk of multiculturalism, British society continues to be deeply riven by racial prejudice.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/brown-man\s-burden/499876/</link>
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      <title><![CDATA[The wizard of Oz]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Anyone who has followed cricket writing in the last 15 years would testify that Gideon Haigh is one of the finest writers around.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Skinning a boyhood memory]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[At 81, when most people would be happy to live their sunset years watching soaps and tending house plants, Srikumar Sen has sprung a surprise: he has written a novel and won a prize outright.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[That crunching sound you hear is Lawrence Wright bending over backwards to be fair to Scientology.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dharwad, the cultural capital of Karnataka, will witness a unique literary festival.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nemai Ghosh&rsquo;s book of photographs of his mentor Satyajit Ray, of film &ldquo;stills&" of Ray&rsquo;s movie productions with some photographs of other filmmakers thrown in for good measure, is not only an incredible, nostalgic journey into the film world of the &rsquo;70s and &rsquo;80s but also a testament to the craft and perseverance of Ghosh himself.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The author&rsquo;s central thesis is that every major change in modern India has come about in the wake of a crisis &mdash; due to accidents of history, not through decisive action or the exercise of vision or imagination.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 1986, a relatively unknown economist wrote about the boom-and-bust financial cycles, contrasting them with the attendant cycles of risk.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[An anatomy of greatness]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Robert Greene thinks intelligence is the most sensitive trigger point for envy.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tribal lessons]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The custom among the Pirah&atilde; Indians of Brazil is that women give birth alone.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[No easy days]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Unless he manages an economic miracle, the assassination of Osama bin Laden will be the biggest achievement of Barack Obama&rsquo;s presidency.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[We wanted another family member, someone to fill out the cast, a supporting actress,&" John Homans, the executive editor at New York magazine, writes in his engaging and informative book that is both a survey of the latest research on canine cognition and a memoir of his years with his Lab mix, Stella.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[24 shades of the Ramayana]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Centuries ago, the God-turned-prince Rama married Sita, a princess who was an incarnation of the soil.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Patachitra painters of Midnapur district of West Bengal are Muslims who depict Hindu gods and goddesses and sing devotional songs that accompany these paintings.]]></description>
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