I grew up in Mumbai. It remains my favourite Indian city, and every time I land at Mumbai airport and…
This was the 18th economic reforms Budget. Eighteen is a significant number; it?s the age when you get the right…
Sixteen is a difficult age in anyone?s life. As the country?s economic reforms enter their sixteenth year, signs of trouble…
Even the worst cynic would admit that it?s been a good year for India Inc. Just consider mergers and acquisitions.…
Can crime novels be called literature? At least two spy novelists have certainly been allotted small plots of super-expensive high…
As Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan held the second most important job on the planet for nearly…
The last few years have seen a volley of books criticising the Bush Administration, ranging from investigative journalism to left-liberal…
Why do most American detectives lead such grim lives? Why do their relationships get nowhere, why don?t they have friends,…
This is a strange and true tale. A man influenced my literary and cultural tastes perhaps more than any other,…
This one isn?t about books. It?s about words that, strangely enough, do not exist. Yes, that?s right, they should be…
I am a lucky man; I clearly know what is the most fun book that I own. It?s William Baring-Gould?s…
I?ve always believed that writing to make people laugh is much tougher than to get them to sniffle. Kill off…
First lines are crucial. Snoopy knew it, having, for many decades, typed out the first line of his great debut…
Writers are gods. They create worlds, decide on their geographies, populate them with people and other animals, and decide how…
Racism is suddenly back in the news everywhere. Three participants in the UK TV show Celebrity Big Brother have been…
Nearly every male reader of my generation would possibly remember which was the first Alistair Maclean book he read. To…
Vikram Chandra?s Sacred Games is already being hailed as a masterpiece, and there is some talk that there could be…
The only time I have felt a little twinge about the fact that I did not push off to the…
