Books
‘It’s All in the Soil’
Devika Bakshi
Kamila Shamsie’s new novel animates history with textures of fruit, blood and stone
Her Spiritual Crisis
I draw naked people. Sketching live models is my hobby. I have drawn over a hundred individuals from all walks of life, and Conversations in the Nude captures my tryst with nudity.
Experiments in Meritocracy
Amy Chua’s controversial new book suggests ‘outsiders’ can and do succeed in unequal America—but at what cost?
Punk Resistance in Putin’s Russia
In her new book, Russian-American writer Masha Gessen puts the spotlight on the spirit of defiance that marks Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot
The Place You Keep Going Back To
Sankarshan Thakur’s biography of Nitish Kumar is also an intimate portrait of Bihar, a state you may be forced out of but cannot really ever leave
The Eternal Poet
A new biography of Sahir Ludhianvi brings to life the poet who changed the idiom of Hindi cinema lyrics
Tyranny of the Troll Reviewer
The withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s book reflects the increasing influence of the hyper-critic who reads not for pleasure or knowledge, but to spot offensiveness
A Hidden Firebrand
On the occasion of the publication in English of his novel One Part Woman, Tamil writer Perumal Murugan talks about growing up a reader in a family of farmers and getting into trouble writing about caste
The Marathoner
Vikram Chandra finds solitude annoying when he writes, but admits to not being a collaborative enough person to work on movies. He writes 400 words every day, adamant that writing is about a steady pace, not a stroke of inspiration
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