Two novels shortlisted for the 2020 Man Booker International Prize, by millennial writers, reveal how trauma can become bogeyman
15 May 2020A journalistic exercise on tawaifs, which also provides a history of sexuality, secularism and ‘propriety’ in India
03 December 2019Jack Reacher is out on his 24th mission. The creator of popular fiction’s most read solitary vigilante opens up
01 November 2019Kiran Nagarkar’s novel about Kabir collapses under its didactic weight
02 August 2019Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International prize in 2018. The Polish novelist is again in the running with an old-fashioned whodunnit
24 April 2019The malleability and universality of the characters in Little Women remain fresh 150 years after its publication
06 March 2019Manav Kaul, actor and author, refuses to be boxed in
26 September 2018Anand Tiwari tells Aditya Mani Jha why his romantic comedy is different
21 February 2018Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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