Bantering With Bandits And Other True Tales Of IndiaBantering with Bandits and Other True Tales of India is a collection of essays that draws upon reportage, travel, and personal history. The author looks back over a decade of experience as a reporter covering stories as diverse as the decline of the dacoit menace in Chambal; starvation, particularly amongst the Sahariyas, a tribal community in Madhya Pradesh, and weavers in Uttar Pradesh who have lost their livelihood; and discovering that the

The fear it breeds and the raw bravery it demands are as timeless as the desert itself

Chicken is the most widely-consumed meat on the planet

When the duckling turns his bedroom into a regular aquatic habitat Franklin must ask himself: does he really want another pet after all

a period that he refers to as one of the most turbulent times of India's post-independence history

But when he comes home from school to find his father missing and his mother dead

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Nigel Nicolson grew up in the world of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsberries one of three sons of the unconventional parents MP Harold Nicolson and his bisexual wife the author Vita Sackville-West

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Drake McCoy lives for risk speed and putting his incredible drag racing skills to the test

Awuradwoa Afful

Each landscape - be it calm green or wild moor

But it's actually remarkably common - we all know what it's like to cringe in embarrassment