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Tales From Travels Across the Globe | Excerpt From ‘Handle With Care’Tales From Travels Across the Globe | Excerpt From ‘Handle With Care’
Tales From Travels Across the Globe | Excerpt From ‘Handle With Care’

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Shreya Sen-Handley’s Handle with Care is a blithe and zippy travelogue that chronicles her adventures around the globe. In tow, most of the time, is the ‘quirky clan’ comprising her British husband, their two children, and their dog. Here are tales of the world beyond south Kolkata and Sherwood Forest

A Female Banker’s Memoir About the Unrest of Demonetisation in IndiaA Female Banker’s Memoir About the Unrest of Demonetisation in India
A Female Banker’s Memoir About the Unrest of Demonetisation in India

The life of a woman banker with a family in a frequently transferrable job isn’t easy. In Arundhati’s life, too, there were breaking points when she almost thought of quitting her career to balance her personal aspirations with her family’s needs. But she didn’t give up. Instead, she faced her

Unlearning the Misconceptions of Religious Identifiers | Excerpts from Books on HijabUnlearning the Misconceptions of Religious Identifiers | Excerpts from Books on Hijab
Unlearning the Misconceptions of Religious Identifiers | Excerpts from Books on Hijab

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What does it mean to be Muslim in India? What does it mean to look like one’s religion? Does one’s faith determine how one is perceived? Is there a secular ideal one is supposed to live up to? Can people of different faiths have a shared culture, a shared identity?

Projecting the Next Five Years of Growth in Uttar Pradesh | ExcerptProjecting the Next Five Years of Growth in Uttar Pradesh | Excerpt
Projecting the Next Five Years of Growth in Uttar Pradesh | Excerpt

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With a population that would make it the fifth most populated in the world if it were a country, Uttar Pradesh has undoubtedly been India’s most politically important state since Independence. It sends the highest number of Lok Sabha members to Parliament and has the biggest legislature in the country.

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    Exclusive! Read the Opening Chapter from S. Hussain Zaidi’s Latest Thriller, “Zero Day”Exclusive! Read the Opening Chapter from S. Hussain Zaidi’s Latest Thriller, “Zero Day”
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    Shahwaz Ali Mirza, head of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, receives an anonymous email claiming it to be a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. He quickly puts together a crack team that includes his protege, IG Cybercrime Vikrant Singh, and gets to work trawling the dark web for more information

    Zany and Full of Zeal: A Visual Excerpt from “Who’s Afraid of Z? Not Me!”Zany and Full of Zeal: A Visual Excerpt from “Who’s Afraid of Z? Not Me!”
    Zany and Full of Zeal: A Visual Excerpt from “Who’s Afraid of Z? Not Me!”

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    Z is miffed. Things are being said about him. That he is not so important. That he will not be missed. But Z is not so easily dismissed. He’s pesky, feisty and determined to show that he may be last, but he is certainly not the least. Our quirky Z-hero