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Books

INSIDE THE WAR ROOM

Ullekh NP

Men, machines and the mind—how Narendra Modi ran the campaign of a lifetime to win India. Excerpts from a new book by Open Deputy Editor

The Remains of the Riddle

Medieval England soars and plummets in Ishiguro’s seventh novel, a fantasy tale

Woman in Red

The pulp politics of this book is not all that harmless

Bihari Laddism

Why can’t Patna boys reconcile the mofussil with a new urban India?

The General and the Half-and-Half

A novel about a Dutch-Pakistani girl coming of age in Zia’s Islamabad

THE INTERNATIONAL LIST

Wicked stories from the Booker queen, a tortuous new bestseller, a neo-feminist manifesto and a master’s odd experiment

God is in the Details

An Indologist from Italy reflects on the rapture that religion offers as an experience

Dazed and Confused

A seething knot of a coming of age story shows how India’s 90s generation deals with drugs, sex, magic mushrooms and, of course, divorce

Provocateur’s Remedy

A journalist employs black comedy to highlight all that is wrong with India’s economy

Home Is Elsewhere

One of Sri Lanka’s most compelling voices plays with ideas of displacement

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