A seething knot of a coming of age story shows how India’s 90s generation deals with drugs, sex, magic mushrooms and, of course, divorce
A journalist employs black comedy to highlight all that is wrong with India’s economy
One of Sri Lanka’s most compelling voices plays with ideas of displacement
Shashi Tharoor takes on everything from Modi to the significance of birthdays with his elegant prose, but spreads his umbrella too wide
A novel set in a fictitious Bengali village fails to realise its ambitions
A calligrapher’s vivid account of the friendship between the great mystic Rumi and an itinerant dervish is spun into a masterful novel
The best cricket book you will read this year, from Pakistan, outscores a passionate commemoration of the Tendulkar legacy
Harish Khare could have done better than his simplistic jottings to debunk the Modi phenomenon
The eighth Jaipur Literature Festival featured fewer superstars but sustained its literary value. Also, a swansong for a great writer—and another way of festival life
Historian Tom Holland on the riddle of monotheism and the crisis within modern-day Islam