A friend of Shalini’s father, he makes a sudden appearance at the end and has unexpected, perhaps unwarranted, sex with…
Four years on, reading its English translation, A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There, by Daisy Rockwell, I realise that I…
A Rohingya’s chilling memoir brings forth anxieties and phobias faced by many across the globe in the name of nationalism,…
Modern pollution is what Snowden terms the records of our lives imprinted in various devices that surround us
Exactly four centuries later, Salman Rushdie arrives with his fourteenth novel, Quichotte, a variation on Cervantes’s masterpiece.
Born in the mid-1970s, a period when his newly-born country Bangladesh was undergoing a violent turmoil, Numair Atif Choudhury went…
Amitav Ghosh tackles climate change in his latest novel, but the burden of superfluous details and lack of ideas leave…
Edited by Githa Hariharan and Salim Yusufji, Battling For India: A Citizen’s Reader is a collection of articles, essays, interviews…
Going through a selection of Ramanujan’s diary, one wonders not only at the entries included, but also about the ones…
Sexism & racism in society apart, Toni Morrison’s new book is also an exploration of psychological causes that push women…
Nayantara Sahgal’s new novel attempts to give us a warning of the ominous times ahead
The ambitious new novel of Booker-winner author Marlon James falters along its edges.
The book has been edited by academicians Suraj Yengde and Anand Teltumbde.
Famed for creating mystical worlds, Haruki Murakami may leave the reader dissatisfied with his latest novel about a portrait artist
The book also has some insightful episodes about the life of women writers and the subtle discriminations they face at…
Two books focusing on the Maoist zone try to decode the dynamics of the region and its tribes
Another book on the idea of a nation serves as a reminder for course correction.
A book charts the flawed trajectory of modern Indian art, with a focus on the most famous suicide of a…
