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Taking sides
Politics is more than a game of thrones.
F.S. Aijazuddin
A greener cosmos
The match yielded multiple layers of delight.
May and Might
The issues are too complex to be handled by an insecure leader.
Decline & fall
Trump is uncorking US policies that have taken decades to mature.
Star Wars
Trump sees himself as an elected Han Solo.
NON-FICTION: LIVING CULTURE
Interior decoration is to architecture what nacre is to an oyster: within an outer shell lies the pearl.
Judicial haiku
Truth demands a forest pulped into reams of legal-length paper.
A second Eden
The very length of the dispute should shame India and Pakistan.
Lucrative diplomacy
Foreign policy is looked upon as a personal insurance policy.
NON-FICTION: Writing as Catharsis
Memoirs that deserve to be shared with more people
A new geography
Will the queen become the Duchess of Edinburgh?
Literary infanticide
One face was shown to the LLF, another to the PSL final.
Slippery Laocoöns
The selection of a US vice president is always a tricky business.
Big lies, little lies
Is President Trump just another dumb blonde?
Facing the dark
A game of political chess is being played.
Si monumentum...
Habib Fida Ali conjured his life, as he did his ideas, out of nothing.
Grouse of silence
Will it be more of last year’s stale helpings?
We are but flies
Which grouping do we fall in — Bigguns or Littluns?
Unheeded sages
Mr Menon’s opinion of us borders on contempt.
Red revenge
The combat ended with a result neither had expected.