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Books

The Revolving Stage

Shougat Dasgupta

Carrying a torch for Calcutta’s decadent old playhouses

In Search of Lost Times

A tantalising novel pits art against new India

Books: The International List

Another stark beauty from Ireland’s literary queen, Murakami’s literary debut in English for the first time, a sad and lengthy tale of a band of brothers and Coetzee’s experiments with truth

The Gita and Being Modern

Why the platitudes of our time are not an alternative to the religious vision of the Bhagavad Gita

Behind the Vale

This former RAW chief’s pacy account on Kashmir is not consistently insightful but his pessimism is not off the mark

Long Journey Into the Night

Two journalists return to the darkest hours of Indian democracy

Bringing Back the Ally

A new history of India’s role in World War II vivifies its players in this scholarly account

‘There Was Only Kavya’

Sudhir Kakar on his new novel about Bhartrihari, the great Sanskrit poet of love

The Basti and the City

A capacious debut novel provides Karachi with a cast of rough characters

The Pole Vaulter’s Guide to the Galaxy

These essays strengthen Amitava Kumar’s engagement with the ‘euphorically’ real

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