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Nothing Novel About It

Hers is a familiar face on the idiot box. She has headed newspapers and magazines. Married to the chief of a public sector giant with two grown-up daughters, she continues to write extensively alongside her career as a television newscaster and anchor. She, as the blurb on her fictionalised autobiography - presented as a novel - puts it, found herself at a disadvantage on two counts: because she was not a man and, more importantly, chose to be a Hindi-language journalist. But Mrinal Pande...

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