1. Book links Lincoln To A Hijacker
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...n's descendants. "(A) dysfunctional family of alcoholics, eccentrics and spoiled brats," the New York Post quoted Lachman as saying. (ANI)   ...

2. India's Aravind Adiga Wins Man Booker Prize 2008
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...y, he studied at James Ruse Agricultural High School. He studied English literature at Columbia University, New York and Magdalen College, Oxford. Adiga began his journalistic career as a financi...

3. Keeping An Ear To The Ground
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...he example of Pattie Moore — now a celebrated icon in the world of design, then a young designer at a New York-based design firm in 1979. Pattie was startled to discover that not many cared abou...

4. BOOK REVIEW: Atlas Of Unknowns
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...literary reads of 2009.   Spread over lush green terrains of Kerala and the multi-faceted soul of New York, Atlas Of Unknows (Simon and Schuster) is the story of sisters Linno and Anju, who ...

5. BOOK REVIEW: More Than You Know
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...ther to go to the bar in anticipation of it being packed to a startling anecdote involving traders from the New York Mercantile Exchange and Marines, to illustrate decision making processes and how th...

6. BOOK REVIEW: House Of Cards
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...efore embarking on a 17-year career as an investment banker. He spent six years at Lazard Frères in New York, and later was a managing director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He is a graduate of...

7. The Grim Side Of Green
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...hor, psychologist and science journalist. He extensively reported on brain and behavioural sciences for The New York Times for 12 years. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He was also awar...

8. “As A Writer You Can't Be Self Indulgent”
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...me, we don’t have that quality of serious journalism as there exists in the West; outlets such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Do you think being a journalist (in the sense that Abir i...

9. History's Laughter Club
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...d out to be one of the best book buys I have made in a while. Its author, Jim Holt, was asked by the New Yorker to write a history of jokes and joke collectors for a special humour issue. Holt...

10. What Obama Reads Before He Sleeps
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...bama revealed: “It is about a guy after 9/11 — his family leaves him and he takes up cricket in New York. It is a fascinating and wonderful book, although I know nothing about cricket.&rdq...

11. Go Back To Your Kitchen Garden
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...e concern about animal welfare. Karl Weber is a writer and editor based in New York. He collaborated with Muhammad Yunus on his bestseller Creating A World Without Po...

12. US State AGs Looking At Google Books Deal
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...he Authors Guild Inc, Association of American Publishers v. Google, US District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 05-8136.   (Reuters) ...

13. The Other End Of The Line
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...rsquo;s world connected through 4 billion phones and the World Wide Web. Emily Yellin, a contributor to The New York Times, has penned practical lessons for CEOs, marketing heads and public relations ...

14. Dan Brown's New Book In September
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... lot faster than mine." The Da Vinci Code, published by Doubleday in 2003 spent 144 weeks on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list, 54 of them at No.1—the position at w...

15. The Journey To Profitability
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... Shagun Mehrotra is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Columbia University, New York. He has done research on economic development and urban poverty in South-East Asia,...

16. Retelling Grandma's Tales
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... you can write about your grandmother's village, just as in your grandmother's village, you can write about New York.    Why did you decide to set your story in a Tamil village? And that...

17. With A Dash Of Elan
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...n international flavour? Is there one culture that has influenced your culinary traits? I think living in New York one is exposed to every other culture in the world and in a way the city is a micro...

18. ‘Our Empathy Is Not Bounded By Nations’
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...s  set in Afghanistan. Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist is as much (or possibly more) about New York than Lahore. Aamer Hussein's short stories often use London as a location. Mohammad...

19. Padma Lakshmi's Burger Binge
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...its mingling with the barbeque sauce, greedily licked off as it dripped down my teenage fingers,” the New York Daily News quoted her as writing. (ANI)   ...

20. The Mark Of History
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...has its share of fringe characters. Kim, the Burtons’ daughter, is Hiroko’s aide as she ages in New York. There’s Abdullah, Raza’s comrade-in-arms and an irreverent observer of...

21. Walking The Walk
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... get a ‘sense of space’. He has therefore walked his way around London, Rome, Athens, Istanbul, New York, Damascus and Cairo. He and his wife Shireen first came to live in Delhi when ...

22. 18 Miles Of Books
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...ly something shamelessly exhibitionist about this bookshop. The bookshop, of course, is the Strand in New York on 12th street and Broadway. With 2.5 million books as its inventory, it is a stagg...

23. The Mystique Of First Editions-2
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...r's catalogue for the true first edition of another modern classic: "Steinbeck, John. The Moon Is Down New York Viking,1942. First edition, first state with "talk.this" on page 112. Fin...

24. Publication Of Disputed Holocaust Memoir Axed
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...the two lost touch, until the 1950s, when they were reunited by accident — on a blind date — in New York. They soon married and earlier this year celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary....

25. Keith Richards's Life In A Book
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...ards, English guitarist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones, is being turned into a book. The New York Post has learnt Jessica Pallington West has compiled the book What Would Keith Rich...

26. NYT To Publish book On Obama
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The New York Times is currently putting together a book, named Obama: The Historic Journey, which features photos and essays depicting US President-elect Barack Obama’s life. The book will be pu

27. Lessons For The Future
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... in Bangalore. He holds a Ph.D in Economics and advanced degrees in Economics from University of Mumbai and New York University. ...

28. A Bookish Affair
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...Cross Road have moved or gone. Some have even been turned into pizzerias. All those legendary bookstores in New York shut down over the last decade. Gotham Book Mart, Mystery Inc. (a store devoted onl...

29. Queries Of An Inquisitive Diplomat
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... of the thriller genre, but I read contemporary literary works as well. I just finished Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy. Auster is a unique writer. His books are so readable yet also very maddeni...

30. Banker's Journey From Books To Movies
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... already sold its local language rights and the foreign rights have been bought by Serendipity Inc, a major New York-based literary agency.    Mosaic Media Group will be collaborating wi...