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Hari Kunzru looks at that great form of performance art of the '60s and '70s: the revolting youth. Soumitro Das tells more.

Pope's cat to tell his master's life in book

An Italian publisher is releasing a kid's book Joseph and Chico, about the Pope and 'narrated' by his cat, Chico.

Devsaab ♥ Devsaab

In his autobiography, the charismatic Dev Anand is clearly seduced by his own stardom, says Poonam Saxena.

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Best-sellers dated March 17, 2007

Kiran Desai leaps back to the top spot with her award-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss.

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He: Shey by Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore wrote He (Shey) to satisfy his granddaughter’s incessant demands for stories.

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King, Commoner, Citizen

A file photo of Fatheyab Ali Meerza, the Nawab of Bengal, at his Kolkata home.

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The Yash Raj of literary fiction

In the novel that led to her trial, Elif Shafak lets the academic in her displace the storyteller, opines Palash K Mehrotra.

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Bridging the gap

Akbar Ahmed's Journey into Islam is an attempt to foster understanding between Islam and the Western civilisation.

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Making history... interesting!

Who said history is boring? A new book by Ian Crofton ensures that the subject would never put anyone to sleep ever again.

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King, Commoner, Citizen

A file photo of Fatheyab Ali Meerza, the Nawab of Bengal, at his Kolkata home.

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Diamond rush

The largest brilliant-cut D-colour flawless diamond ever to appear at an auction.

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On van Gogh's mind

This photo shows Vincent van Gogh's 1887 "Self-Portrait: Three Quarters to the Right."

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Shakespeare was a spitting image of Potter in his youth!

A UK police artist's portrait of William Shakespeare's younger avtaar shows that he was the spitting image of Harry Potter.

Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding’s first book was snubbed

The creator of goofy TV journalist Bridget Jones had her first novel rejected by popular romance publisher Mills & Boon.

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