How did Mira Nair and Baz Luhrmann turn two slim, ambiguous novels into such flabby, literal-minded films,... 
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A new book from the writer of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Thomas Heatherwick has an eye for the spectacular. Just check out the cauldron he designed for Olympics...
There are so many people with so much to say and saying it; there is, of...
William Dalrymple talks to Shougat Dasgupta about the first abject British defeat and the startling current parallels
