Mecca today is a microcosm of its own history replayed as tragedy
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
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
The joys and sorrows of the Indian soldier in the world theatre of war
A camera-wielding bureaucrat’s tribute to the birds of the Rashtrapati Bhavan Estate
The memoir of Hindi cinema’s enfant terrible brings out in vivid colours the turbulent early years of an exceptional talent
A rich and capacious second novel spreads across Ireland, India and America, but turns into a fable when it doesn’t quite come together
A compelling love song for the author’s adoptive home, a city of multiple paradoxes
The reissue of the pioneer’s four classics brings to life his spiritual quest in all its vividness
Graphic novelist Appupen takes on consumerism in the third of his ambitious series. But is he part of the very system he is criticising?