Books
2014 REVIEW: BOOKS
Rajni George
Close to home • We are completely beside ourselves • How to build a girl • Mecca: The sacred city
Holiday Reading
America’s favourite non-hero’s swansong, an odd new tale from Ben Okri, a fashion diva’s gorgeous biography and the last of Follett’s Century trilogy
‘Of Course We Killed Him’
A nuanced new narrative of the Bangladesh Liberation War looks closely at Mujibur Rahman’s assassin
‘Some of My Friends Say All My Work Is Fiction’
The well known Delhi-based sociologist who has written a whodunnit set in America under a pseudonym
Show Me the Money
Banker-turned-writer Ravi Subramanian talks about his latest book, the first ever bitcoin-thriller, God is a Gamer, and the life of a writer of commercial fiction
Wizard of the Serio-Comic
Novelist Upamanyu Chatterjee is the master of Indian cool. In his latest, Fairy Tales at Fifty, he pushes his limits in a bleak tale of modern Indian anguish. The writer in conversation with Open magazine
The Taste Maestro
Über-hotelier, debonair and dog lover, Habib Rehman in his own words is a mandatory read for managers and adventurers
The Wandering Gastronome
Pamela Timms explores the delights of Old Delhi in a delicious tale full of feasts, friends and forgotten recipes
“The hope has never gone away in Afghanistan”
Khaled Hosseini, the bestselling author, speaks about the past, present and future of Afghanistan and his writerly life
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