Books
Family Matters
Arunava Sinha
Neel Mukherjee’s second novel gives us the Calcutta family in all its crumbling glory.
The last of the gentle humorists
A new translation of Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi’s book takes us back to a time in history that is slowly fading away.
The man who wrote a poem on a non-meeting
Ranjit Hoskote says anything can be good material for poetry if you can make it work
Who gave slang a bad name?
The rich and complex history of slang demonstrates how we have always felt the need to express all that is raw, emotive and visceral through a pontaneous counter-language
Let’s welcome the autonomy economy
Gujarat isn’t Guangdong, but shows the rest of India what its model of governance can achieve
Home and the World
Akhil Sharma’s new novel Family Life, 12 years in the making, is an immigrant saga partially gone wrong
The Wishful Advisor
In his controversial book, Sanjaya Baru wishes for a Manmohan Singh who does not exist, and in the process unmasks the one who does
A Family of Fine Taste
An unlettered carpet merchant and art dealer in Amritsar chanced upon the Pahari school of painting. His son keeps the legacy going with his prized collection of traditional painting, sculpture and textiles
The Anti Twilight
A new novel offers redemption for the gothic novel, taking us back to a time before vampires were kind, romantic and vegetarian
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