Swati Pandey

Articles

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  Mobile India: Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey’s “The Great Indian Phone Book”

  Today there are nearly 900 million cell phone subscribers in India....

  Swati PandeyAug 15, 2013

  • Nonfiction

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  Woman Something: On "Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?"

  Homepage image: Spanish poster for Fellini's slacker film 'I Vitelloni' THIRTYSOMETHING, THE 1980s TELEVISION SHOW that helped define the boomer experience, was about wanting youth despite its terror. The suffix playfully captured the confusion of growing up and old and recognized &...

  Swati PandeyDec 13, 2012

• War By Manhunt: Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

  UNLIKE WARS, MANHUNTS promise a sort of tidiness. They begin and end with images — a charcoal sketch or youthful mugshot — and end with grizzled defeat or something gorier, confirmation that the good guys won. Two of the most important ...

  Swati PandeyJul 8, 2012

• Cinematic: Roger Ebert's "Life Itself"

  Since Ebert’s prime, everything has changed....

  Swati PandeyMar 14, 2012

  • Biography

  • Film

  • Memoir

• Life After Papyrus: Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve"

  In The Swerve, however, death is nothing, and people aren’t much either....

  Swati PandeyFeb 17, 2012

  • History

  • Nonfiction