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contents
a moveable feast
The inheritance of taste
By Shylashri Shankar
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jewels in the crown
Reliving India’s
Test matches in England
down the decades
By Boria Majumdar
40
business
Corporate crime and punishment
By Aresh Shirali
12
n ot PeoPle like us
Worthy of praise
By Rajeev Masand
66
back to the bindu
Time-travelling with Raza
By Shaikh Ayaz
58
h ollywood rePorter
Sandra Bullock on her
new film O c e a n’s 8
By Noel de Souza
64
oP en essay
The untold history of Hampi
By William Dalrymple
14
a score to settle
A Test series win in England
will prove Kohli’s India worthy
of their top rank in the format
By Boria Majumdar
36
Prose & Politics
Waiting for the barbarians
By Siddharth Singh
56
Cover by
Saurabh Singh
oP en diary
By Swapan Dasgupta
6
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i srahul gandhi
modi’s biggest asset
in 2019?
Instead of unveiling an alternative
vision for India, the Congress president
has made himself an election issue
By PR Ramesh
22
the rock bottom
of origins
The ancestral story as written
in a stone found in Odisha
By Lhendup G Bhutia
32
t he Poison
of forwards
Fake news going viral on
WhatsApp has resulted in
several deaths across India.
Can it be stopped?
By Rahul Pandita
28
‘ you find ways to
subvert white femininity
in order to survive’
Margo Jefferson’s memoir
about growing up as an elite
African-American woman moves
between femininity and feminism
without getting polemical on either
By Tishani Doshi
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