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Rakesh Sharma

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Review: A Bend In The River By V.S Naipaul

No other writer I know captures the essence of a society in transition as accurately as Naipaul. In his work, Naipaul writes eloquently and simply about people and cultures disconnected from their origins. It is a milieu that he knows well. At the age of seventeen, Naipaul made his way from Trinidad, a semi-developed island…

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Traveling with Paul Theroux in Fresh Air Fiend

In the Internet age, travel writing is a vanishing art. Comments and ratings on reviews websites have transformed the travel experience from an adventure to a morass of condensed opinions and ratings. Thankfully we still have Paul Theroux. Having lived across three continents and visited numerous places over the years, Theroux’s world is broad and…

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Review Of Schulz And Peanuts: A Biography

In an interview with television anchor Al Roker towards the end of his life, Charles Schulz, creator of the phenomenally popular Peanuts comic strip, broke down into tears. “You know, that poor kid (Charlie Brown), he never got to kick the football. What a dirty trick to play, he never got to kick the football,”…

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A Review Of Burton Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street

The first piece of advice that we got from our business journalism professor in J-school was to forget all economic theories about markets. It was an odd piece of wisdom. I disregarded it and borrowed the Principles of Economics by Gregory Mankiw from a colleague. I never got around to reading the book because of…

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