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A pointless epitaph: Clumsy retelling mars Coomar Narain scandal revisit

Kallol Bhattacherjee's 'A Singular Spy' attempts to tell an espionage tale but leaves many key questions unanswered

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A Singular Spy: The Untold Story of Coomar Narain
Author: Kallol Bhattacherjee
Publisher:  Bloomsbury
Pages: xiv+186
Price: Rs 499


“...It cannot be claimed that A Singular Spy will answer all the questions related to the Coomar Narain spy scandal, but it is an attempt to provide a complete picture and give honest answers to some of the lingering questions,” says Kallol Bhattacherjee, the author of the book under review in an afterword to the volume.  But he does not even attempt to raise a more important question: Why tell a tale of an affair 40 years after it came to

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