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Books

The New Heroes of MBA Lit

The rise of authors from the IIT/IIM milieu gives Chetan Bhagat’s audience the stories of the homes they adopted and the ones they left behind—in Devanagari

Richard Flanagan wins Man Booker Prize 2014

The Australian novelist won the world's big book prize for his war novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Booker Shortlist

An art adventure; the American cynic; dystopian love; the Burma Death Railway; a very Bengali tale; and a monkey girl

Planet of the Potentates

A compelling treatise by a seer-savant studies what the ascendancy of Homo sapiens has made of our world

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

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