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Centenary: The Making of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi   Pandit Bhimsen Joshi would have turned 100 this year. From a little boy who ran away from home to becoming a voice that remains Hindustani classical singing's gold standard, this is the story of his extraordinary journey

What makes Christopher Alexander's vision of architecture timeless?     In his book JNU: Nationalism and India's Uncivil War, professor Makarand R Paranjape fails to understand the essential irreverence that characterises the premier university     And Then There Were None: Veteran journalist Saeed Naqvi's The Muslim Vanishes imagines India without its Muslim population     Dr Saroja Balan's It's Your Baby is essential reading for every new parent

EXPRESS OPINION       Liberty is a non-derogable human right and the crime ID Bill is a dagger plunged into its heart   P Chidambaram writes: The Home Minister verbally assured the Rajya Sabha that the techniques prohibited in Selvi will not be employed, but refused to incorporate the assurance in the Bill... The government resorted to the usual binary arguments: If prisoners have human rights, so do victims. The Bill is not about victims but about arrestees, detenus and prisoners

India's stand on the Russian-Ukraine crisis is best illustrated by its statements at UN     When Fanaticism and religiosity go together     The fiasco around Gautam Navlakha seeking PG Woodhouse's book at Taloja jail     The vacancies in BJP's parliamentary board and UP CM Yogi's chances of getting in

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