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The Evil Joke

Éric Vuillard, the 2017 winner of Prix Goncourt, returns to the pathologies of the past in what could be the smallest novel—and one of the most powerful-- ever written on the Nazi project

Among the Brahmins

It is the tension between cultural memory and current political anxieties about change that gives this riverside saga by Aatish Taseer the kind of literary urgency we hardly see in the writings on India

In Defence of Killing a Tigress

The hypocrisy of rich Indians telling the poor why they must die

Mumbai Notebook

Judicial overreach and mercury overshoot

Indraprastha

The new crowd at five-star hotels and the old problem of Diwali gifts

Art of the Possible

Politics, the perils of democratic systems and the role of institutions

The Measure of a Statue

The bronze incarnation of the Iron Man is necessary iconography for the reign of Modi

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