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Honeymoon with my Brother is one of the most unusual stories but a must read because it sounds very funny thing happened to Franz Wisner on his way to the altar. For starters, his fiance dumped him just days before their wedding. With guests en route and festivities prepaid, Franz decided to have the wedding anyway…just without a bride. He then chose to take his brother Kurt on his scheduled Costa Rican honeymoon. They canceled the flower arrangements, swapped champagne for beer, and promised not to carry each other over any thresholds. Read the rest of this entry »

The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare, with great courage, passion and eloquence, by a mind that has engaged unhesitatingly with its changing realities, often anticipating the way things have moved in the last decade.In the fourteen interviews collected here, conducted between January 2001 and March 2008, Arundhati Roy examines the nature of state and corporate power as it has emerged during this period, and the shape that resistance movements are taking. As she speaks, among other things, about people displaced by dams and industry, the genocide in Gujarat, Maoist rebels, the war in Kashmir and the global War on Terror, she raises fundamental questions about democracy, justice and non-violent protest. Read the rest of this entry »

In the sixtieth year of India’s independence, best-selling author Shobhaa Dé turns sixty as well. In a departure from anything else she has written, in Superstar India , the first big ‘India’ book by a woman, she tells the story of what our nation is all about in a way that has never been told before.

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