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Somak Ghoshal

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ARTICLES BY SOMAK GHOSHAL

The Berlin Wall’s collapse encapsulates themes of love, betrayal and historical upheaval in ‘Kairos’. (iStockphoto)

'Kairos' review: Love and loathing in the shadow of Berlin Wall

5 min read . 28 Jun 2024

Asaf Ali (centre) with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Jawaharlal Nehru in March 1946. (Getty Images)

Circles of Freedom: An immersive study of the life of Asaf Ali

6 min read . 22 Jun 2024

Karen Jennings Crooked Seeds is a dystopian novel set in Cape Town,

'Crooked Seeds': Karen Jennings' dystopian Cape Town novel examines water crisis

2 min read . 16 Jun 2024

Born in 1947, Paul Auster cut a unique figure among his contemporaries. (AP)

Paul Auster: A rare cultural icon who engaged and entertained

5 min read . 09 Jun 2024

From Cal Newport to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this is an exhaustive list of new books across genres. (iStockphoto)

10 page-turners for summer

12 min read . 24 May 2024

The Brahmaputra is the eponymous ‘red river’. (iStockphoto)

Red River by Somnath Batabyal: The past is alive, and not a foreign country

5 min read . 05 May 2024

Chughtai has been called the first feminist Urdu writer. Courtesy Istockphoto

The persistence of human perfidy

5 min read . 04 May 2024

Salman Rushdie at a book party for his new memoir, ‘Knife’.

Salman Rushdie's ‘Knife’: The aftermath of an attack

6 min read . 28 Apr 2024

Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint

How to spark joy from your office space at home

8 min read . 01 Sep 2021

Jeff Immelt, formerly the top boss of General Electric

'Leaders need to absorb fear in the face of uncertainty’

4 min read . 19 Mar 2021

Hot Seat is candid, sometimes contrite, an attempt by Jeff Immelt to explain his questionable decisions as a manager.

Crisis can be a great time to drive change and shift market share: Jeff Immelt

5 min read . 18 Mar 2021

Gandhi with Manu Gandhi (left) and Abha Gandhi.

Understanding MK Gandhi’s ‘love’ for his ‘spiritual wife’

7 min read . 02 Oct 2020

The covers of the books in the longlist of the prize.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize longlist picks 12 power-packed titles

1 min read . 30 Sep 2020

Gunnar and Inger Hansen with their family.

How a Danish family built an extraordinary collection of modern Indian art

6 min read . 28 Sep 2020

Guy Raz’s new book, How I Built This (Macmillan, ₹750).

How Netflix, Airbnb and others made it big

1 min read . 27 Sep 2020

A painting by Bhupen Khakhar.

Auction watch | Masterpieces of Indian modernist art go under the hammer

1 min read . 27 Sep 2020

The shortlisted titles for the JCB Prize of Literature 2020

JCB Prize for Literature 2020 shortlist features three debuts in the final five

2 min read . 25 Sep 2020

Adulting: How To Become A Grown-Up In 535 Easy(ish) Steps

Adulting isn’t bad, if you know how to do it

1 min read . 20 Sep 2020

The Booker Prize 2020 shortlist.

Booker Prize 2020: Take your pick of the shortlist

2 min read . 17 Sep 2020

The covers of the launch titles of the series.

Ravi Subramanian's short and slick murder mysteries

2 min read . 17 Sep 2020