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Books

Tales from Sin City

Two Delhi debuts take on questions of ownership and identity in the city that is never fully awake. One does better than the other

A Curious Tale from the Promised Land

The charming story of a family of Indians who went to Jerusalem to mind an Indian hospice and stayed

Urdu Immortal

A newly translated selection of stories finds irony, poetry and wasted opportunity in the troubled history of the Subcontinent

Big Screen, Small Dreams

A study of Indian cinema post-liberalisation uses Bollywood’s subtexts to examine the great Indian middle class

The Reconfigured Utopia

Mecca today is a microcosm of its own history replayed as tragedy

Poet of the Mundane

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

Poet of the Mundane

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

We Go Singing as We March

The joys and sorrows of the Indian soldier in the world theatre of war

Presidential Wings

A camera-wielding bureaucrat’s tribute to the birds of the Rashtrapati Bhavan Estate

The Big Bad Shah

The memoir of Hindi cinema’s enfant terrible brings out in vivid colours the turbulent early years of an exceptional talent

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