Faiza Sultan Khan, Tunku Varadarajan, Burhan Wazir, MJ Akbar, Mini Kapoor, Jug Suraiya

Close to home • We are completely beside ourselves • How to build a girl • Mecca: The sacred city

America’s favourite non-hero’s swansong, an odd new tale from Ben Okri, a fashion diva’s gorgeous biography and the last of Follett’s Century trilogy

The well known Delhi-based sociologist who has written a whodunnit set in America under a pseudonym

Banker-turned-writer Ravi Subramanian talks about his latest book, the first ever bitcoin-thriller, God is a Gamer, and the life of a writer of commercial fiction

Novelist Upamanyu Chatterjee is the master of Indian cool. In his latest, Fairy Tales at Fifty, he pushes his limits in a bleak tale of modern Indian anguish. The writer in conversation with Open magazine

Khaled Hosseini, the bestselling author, speaks about the past, present and future of Afghanistan and his writerly life

BN Goswamy, India’s foremost art historian, shows us how to appreciate a painting in an accessible new book which explains 101 masterpieces

Atul Bhalla’s new show continues his conversation with ecology and his lifelong meditation on water

The return of a Latin American literary idol, a Holocaust morality tale, pre-WWI England, stories from the shadowlands, a Victorian saga of closeted lesbians and a gay parallel narrative in seventeenth-century Amsterdam

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…