Books

Dissenting Note

Devapriya Roy

Nayantara Sahgal’s new novel is a meditation on an India that’s short on Nehruvian idealism

‘We need a book of the times we’re living in’

Shikha Kumar

Investigative journalists Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark tell Shikha Kumar about the research for their bestselling book on Osama bin Laden. A film is in the making

Shobhaa Dé: Queen of Why Nots

Prabha Chandran

Shobhaa Dé reminds us that age is not an abuse

Lost in the South

Nanditha Krishna

Charles Allen’s south Indian journey misses many historical moments

Aligned but not Allied

Siddharth Singh

India’s foreign policy has changed from a moralist stance to a more pragmatic one

Sujatha Gidla: Identity Crisis

Rohini Mohan

Sujatha Gidla is a subway conductor in New York with an Indian backstory of caste and isolation, now captured in a critically acclaimed memoir

Bibliomania Unbound

Karthik Shankar

Books as objects of obsession

Gangetic Blunders

CP Rajendran

The entwined fate of the river and the country

Shashi Tharoor, TM Krishna, Daniel Ellsberg, Yasser Usman, Husain Haqqani, Mary Beard, Zadie Smith, Snigdha Poonam, Salman Khurshid, John Zubrzycki, Sheila Dikshit, Roxane Gay, Barkha Dutt, Mohammed Hanif and others