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Human faces of emperors

First came William Dalrymple, then Alex Rutherford. While the former used primary sources, not considered important by stiff necked historians, to bring to life civil and common society, Alex  Rutherford , the pseudonym of Diana and Michael  Preston, has brilliantly interpreted the character and motivations of emperors from the Mughal dynasty. The Tainted Throme is […]


Builders want you to have babies

You would have thought Pune resident Anurag Srivastav, an advisor at a health insurance company, would be reluctant to relocate from what he admits was “a comfortable two-bedroom apartment in a nice building,” with a swimming poolto boot. But, says the father of six-year-old Aayushi, when my daughter turned four, my wife Namita and I […]

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