Two Delhi debuts take on questions of ownership and identity in the city that is never fully awake. One does better than the other
The charming story of a family of Indians who went to Jerusalem to mind an Indian hospice and stayed
A newly translated selection of stories finds irony, poetry and wasted opportunity in the troubled history of the Subcontinent
A study of Indian cinema post-liberalisation uses Bollywood’s subtexts to examine the great Indian middle class
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