Books
Her Mahabharata
Bibek Debroy
Karthika Nair retells the epic in verse with a feminist and subaltern perspective
Passion Play
Anand Ranganathan’s latest novel is a gripping tale of love and war set in the backdrop of the Mizo insurgency
Humanist at Home
Sunjeev Sahota’s Booker-shortlisted novel tells the story of illegal immigrants in Britain
Lisbeth Salander and Literary Vampirism
Stieg Larsson gets a competent inheritor but the twice-told tale of the sequel should not lead to The Girl Who Created a Storm in a Teacup
The Gospel According to Poddar
The amazing story of a man and his publishing house that reshaped Hindu nationalism
The Master and His Magnifying Glass
This 1930s chronicle of a lower middle class youth brings out the genius of novelist and playwright Upendranath Ashk, known as the Proust of Hindi literature
All’s Fair in War and Peace
An ambitious historical novel takes on the 20th century’s two great wars, with some hiccups
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