Books
‘Engage With the Mind of the Painter’
Rajni George
BN Goswamy, India’s foremost art historian, shows us how to appreciate a painting in an accessible new book which explains 101 masterpieces
A Political Junkie’s Big Binge
Forget the style and all those cliches, this book, written with the wonderment and adrenaline of a committed reporter, captures the drama of 2014 and the men who powered it
Bringing Back the Queen
AN Wilson’s majestic biography rehabilitates the much misinterpreted Victoria
A Miniaturist’s Offerings
Mirza Waheed’s second novel, in the finest romantic tradition, depicts love amidst conflict in Kashmir
The Man, the Mind and the Game
Here is a cricketer who was too young to consume the bottle of champagne he received upon winning his first man-of-the-match honour. The legend of Sachin Tendulkar in his own words
The Universal Islamist
This biography of Allama Muhammad Iqbal redeems the philosopher-poet from political and nationalist stereotypes
Bleak House
A collection of translated short stories by the late Sunil Gangopadhyay reveals his preoccupation with man’s inhumanity
Dharma Drama
In their retellings of India’s ancient past, these writers fall somewhere between shallow revisionism and ponderous pontification
Fall Fiction
The return of a Latin American literary idol, a Holocaust morality tale, pre-WWI England, stories from the shadowlands, a Victorian saga of closeted lesbians and a gay parallel narrative in seventeenth-century Amsterdam
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