This is an archive article published on December 18, 2005
The top Ten
San Francisco Chronicle, fiction nbsp; nbsp; 1. The Lighthouse, PD James 2. Memories of My Melancholy Whores,Gabriel Garcia Marque...
December 18, 2005 12:00 AM IST
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San Francisco Chronicle, fiction
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1. The Lighthouse, PD James 2. Memories of My Melancholy Whores,Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3. Saving Fish From Drowning, Amy Tan 4. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire 5. A Feast for Crows, George RR Martin 6. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 7. Ordinary Heroes, Scott Turow 8. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, Anne Rice 9. The Penultimate Peril, Lemony Snicket 10. The Sea, John Banville
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Foreign Affairs
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1. The World Is Flat, Thomas L Friedman 2. The Assassins8217; Gate, George Packer 3. Collapse, Jared Diamond 4. Blueprint for Action, Thomas PM Barnett 5. The Next Attack, Daniel Benjamin 038; Steven Simon 6. Imperial Grunts, Robert D Kaplan 7. The Great War for Civilisation, Robert Fisk 8. China, Inc., Ted C Fishman 9. The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, Benjamin M Friedman 10. Postwar, Tony Judt
Veteran poet, screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar recently expressed his disagreement with longtime collaborator and music composer AR Rahman over the latter’s claims that the Hindi film industry has become more communal in the past eight years. Akhtar claimed that the film industry has always been religion-agnostic and has picked the best person for the job.