Dreams under arrest

Unlike the typical politicised prison literature, this book is a refreshing change from the blinkered views of writers who have usurped the right to comment on Iraqi events, writes M K Chandra bose

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The accused: theodore booneJohn GrishamHachette, 2012, pp 288, 250Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most lawyers. When stolen computer equipment turns up in Theo’s school locker, the police start leaning on him...

Success saga

Aamir Khan is undoubtedly one of the few cerebral actors in the Hindi film industry where brainless wonders abound. With producer Tahir Hussain for a father, and an ace director Nasir Hussain for an uncle, and aided by a youthful fascination for...

Unravelling the artist

Artist, Undone by Sanjay Kumar is a wickedly humorous book — finely written, marvellously layered, intricately crafted and psychologically curious. The book is about hell, of self-discovery, and the price of self-discovery.