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Book Review: The Best Mistakes of my Life by actor-director Sanjay Khan [Open Magazine]

Candid. Charming. Poignant. Bollywood veteran, Sanjay Khan’s autobiography, The Best Mistakes of My Life is all that and much more. It’s an eclectic mix of stories about his...

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Book Review: ‘The Glass House’ is a Simple Tale of City Life, Told Splendidly [Quint]

Years ago, having moved houses about six or seven times in London, all I dreamt about was owning a patch of land that I could call...

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Book Review: ‘Notes From a Spanish Diary’ is a Grand Ode to Travel [Quint]

“Spain is a country for living and not for dying,” American novelist and Nobel Laureate, Ernest Hemingway famously said. It is no secret that he paid...

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Book Review: ‘Prime Time Crime’ is a Heady Cocktail of Love & Lies [Quint]

Year 1999, the dark, ominous underbelly of Mumbai (then Bombay) is seething with gangsters: Khalif Ahmed, Mohan Raswe and Usman Ali. Their exploits, feuds and financial...

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Book Review: How a Man Cycled 22 Days to Reach the Commonwealth Games! [Quint]

When I picked up Nataunki Diaries, it promised to open such urban and rural vistas of India for me as I have never seen – well,...

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