Fact and fiction meet in 1680s’ Bengal, a melting pot of cultures
Much has been written about India’s political history, but here comes a book that examines in exciting detail the subcontinent’s…
Nasrin hasn’t been to Bangladesh in 22 years. In a nutshell, she has been leading the life of a wanderer…
IF YOU ever meet filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan, never ask him why he has made only a dozen films in a…
ARAVIND ADIGA has been writing about areas of darkness in India for a long time now. In the Booker Prize-winning…
A rite-of-passage tale that doesn’t quite stand up to the best, yet isn’t so easily forgotten
If the Soviet past and present are difficult, the future, too, is not where it ought to be
Stories rooted in reality but elevated to art with the use of imagination
There are no simple answers to this seemingly simple question.
ZUBIN MEHTA was “a child of music”, having learned to sing and speak at almost the same time. While growing…
With her Bengal trilogy, Tahmima Anam has addressed the 1971 Bangladesh war (A Golden Age), its aftermath (The Good Muslim)…
An incredible peek into the past of a great city
You can’t read this story about a small Muslim state without thinking about the present, caught as we are in…
An outsider’s account of what life can be under the shadow of the gun and month-long blockades
IN DECEMBER 1965, popular Bengali magazine Sandesh printed the first installment of Satyajit Ray’s detective stories featuring 27-year-old amateur detective…
Kunal Basu’s new book based in the city of joy turns its eye on its poorest of the poor
Vikram Seth’s new collection of poems is by no means his best, but it’s familiar Seth territory, and that can’t…
This book will shake the reader with its political, ear-to-the-ground stories
