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Books
Sacred treasure
A limited edition pictorial guide to Varanasi returns a rare British Library map to India after more than a century
‘I have an ill-defined yearning to belong to some stretch of this earth’
Zia Haider Rahman’s first novel, In the Light of What We Know, is already the literary event of the year (reviewed in Open, ‘A Groundbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’, 23 June 2014). Born in Bangladesh and educated at Oxford, Cambridge and Yale, Rahman has worked as an investment banker and human rights lawyer. The novelist in conversation with S Prasannarajan, editor, Open magazine
Recommended reading for this summer
The literary world tells us what to read this summer
The bad girl’s guide to Delhi
A first novel offers sharp visuals and flashes of insight into the city but falls victim to the very banality it projects onto its hapless subjects
A Passage to America
A warm Indian-American debut suffers the narrative pitfalls of mental illness but finds safe harbour
Memoir as manifesto
America’s former Secretary of State gears up for a presidential campaign with a much-anticipated autobiography
Return of the Rebels
An incendiary Urdu classic, banned in 1932, makes its way back to us in English
Monsters-in-Law
A hilarious yet serious look at the indefatigable Indian mother-in-law tells us why she is a national problem
Family Matters
Neel Mukherjee’s second novel gives us the Calcutta family in all its crumbling glory.
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