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The Marriage Bureau For Rich People

The Marriage Bureau For Rich PeopleThis book topped the list of ‘Page Turners to pick up in 2009’, published by Hindustan Times. The article said ‘Set in an Indian Marriage bureau and billed as Jane Austen meets McCall Smith, the book is charming, funny and acutely observed.’

Author: Farahad Zama

Publisher: Abacus

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Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation

Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed NationThe co-founder and co-chairman of Infosys, Nilekani, Nandan one of India’s leading computer companies, passionately expounds his position on the nation’s developmental issues and possible policy solutions.

Nilekani is most insightful in his analysis of the IT revolution spurred by companies like

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Amit Chaudhuri

Amit ChaudhuriEven the process of walking towards the apartment building where Amit Chaudhuri lives involves music. As I approach the block of high-rise flats, I pass the Calcutta School of Music. For four years of my life, this is where I did my bit to learn Western classical piano. Passing below an open window

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Made in Assam

Next Door by Jahnavi Barua is a collection of stories where the characters are so close to life that you wonder if raising it as a problem is the problem. Meet one of them. Jiu Das’s mother, Nilima, is a teacher who faces the prospect of having to give up her job as schoolteacher to look after an

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Slumdog... book helps raise money for underprivileged kids

Special copies of Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup's book, which was adapted for the eight-Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire, has been auctioned online to raise funds for an NGO engaged in child welfare.

Online trading website Ebay India has auctioned three copies of Vikas Swarup's book "Q &

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Condoleezza Rice ‘inks memoir deal

Condoleezza Rice ‘inks memoir dealFormer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed a three-book deal with Crown Publishers, starting in 2011 with a memoir of her eight years under former US President George W. Bush, it has emerged.

The first book is tentatively scheduled to appear in the autumn of 2011, Crown said in a

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Booked in

At a literary discussion at Kala Ghoda last week, feminist writer and publisher Urvashi Butalia, evoked memories of bygone days when there were only a few publishing houses around.

Butalia, the co-founder of the publishing house, Kali for Women, inaugurated the event and said that 40 years ago

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