Books
Banking on God
Aanchal Bansal
The success of Amish Tripathi’s Meluha series has led to a surfeit of mythological thrillers
Heartbreak Central
Junot Diaz’s stories of love, especially the wreckage of love, hit where it hurts most
The Difficulty of Being Reformist
And why Das shouldn’t count on Raj Dharma as a saviour of the Indian economy
The Anatomy of Grey
Critics have panned it. Even those hooked to the books admit there’s nothing much to the story. So what makes the Fifty Shades trilogy such a gasping success?
Who Has Heard of Morbi?
It’s strange that one can completely forget a tragedy like the collapse of the Machhu Dam II in Gujarat, which led to the death of nearly 25,000 people
The Importance of Being Earnest
Writers cannot live in a vacuum, isolated from political currents anymore, says Pankaj Mishra
The RAW Files
A former intelligence officer writes a gripping and thinly disguised fictional account of the case of Rabinder Singh, an Indian spy who went rogue and escaped to the US
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
Seventeen-year-old cartoonist Unni Chacko has jumped off a building. Nobody is able to explain why he did it. The only clues he has left behind are the cartoons and comics he has drawn, which his alcoholic father is trying to decipher. Extracts from Manu Joseph’s new novel
War, Terror and Hate
Journalist Adrian Levy’s book Deception was about the West’s role in Al Qaida’s birth and Pakistan’s duplicity. The Meadow was about a kidnapping in Kashmir. Now he plans one on 26/11. An interview
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