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Julian Barnes: “I do believe in grudge-bearing”
25 April 2013

In a rare interview, the novelist Julian Barnes talks about politics, euthanasia, his time on the NS, Christopher Hitchens’s “corkscrew” turn to the right and why John Major should be “boiled alive throughout all eternity”.

Asia
By candlelight, a nation confronts its dark heart
03 January 2013

It won’t be so easy to change the deeply entrenched patriarchal mindset that lead to the rape of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi.

Books
Last Man in Tower and The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India
18 July 2011
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Twirlymen: the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers
04 July 2011
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Imperial Bedrooms
23 July 2010
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Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
28 June 2010
Asia
When enough is enough
11 December 2008

Life in the teeming city is blighted by fear and anxiety. Even the latest Hindi blockbusters are pla

International Politics
Mumbai massacre
04 December 2008

India has suffered what many are calling its 9/11. Here one of the country's leading journalists int

Books
Two nations
28 March 2005

Being Indian: inside the real India

Pavan K Varma William Heinemann, 217pp, £17.99

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