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Sushma Swaraj loves fiction and poetry!

SUSHMA SWARAJ, the 56-year-old charismatic Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader known for her gift of the gab, is the machine gun-mouth of the political outfit. She was earlier a lawyer in the Supreme Court and later went on to become the youngest cabinet minister of the country at the age of 25 years. When Swaraj

Jeffrey’s Archer’s ‘To cut a long story short’

When I was in college, my lecturer used to say, “The king and the queen died is a story. The king died but the queen died of grief is a plot.” Apply it to Jeffrey Archer, the master storyteller, and you will agree that the story should read: ‘The king died and the queen died.

Top books of 1999

Business @ The Speed of Thought Bill Gates / Tech / Rs 856.80 The world’s biggest geek strikes again. And this book, like all the books written by those who became rich, will be bought in large numbers by those who want to become rich. “Business…” states its premise in the opening sentence itself, which

Discovering serendipity

For years, I used to pity people who were into self-help books (which meant most of America). Until Betty Shine happened. There I was browsing for more than an hour at Sankars Book Stall when my eye picked out her book, Mind Magic. Maybe it was the jacket blurb. Maybe it was my age –