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Big Screen, Small Dreams
Sunaina Kumar
A study of Indian cinema post-liberalisation uses Bollywood’s subtexts to examine the great Indian middle class
Poet of the Mundane
Amit Chaudhuri matches the glorious nothingness of Afternoon Raag at last with his beautiful new novel about a bookish young Bengali Everyman and his uncle in London
Poet of the Mundane
Amit Chaudhuri matches the glorious nothingness of Afternoon Raag at last with his beautiful new novel about a bookish young Bengali Everyman and his uncle in London
Presidential Wings
A camera-wielding bureaucrat’s tribute to the birds of the Rashtrapati Bhavan Estate
The Big Bad Shah
The memoir of Hindi cinema’s enfant terrible brings out in vivid colours the turbulent early years of an exceptional talent
All Over the Map
A rich and capacious second novel spreads across Ireland, India and America, but turns into a fable when it doesn’t quite come together
Kathmandu, Mon Amour
A compelling love song for the author’s adoptive home, a city of multiple paradoxes
The Return of Raja Rao
The reissue of the pioneer’s four classics brings to life his spiritual quest in all its vividness
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