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Books
Who gave slang a bad name?
The rich and complex history of slang demonstrates how we have always felt the need to express all that is raw, emotive and visceral through a pontaneous counter-language
Let’s welcome the autonomy economy
Gujarat isn’t Guangdong, but shows the rest of India what its model of governance can achieve
The Lives of Monks
Charu Singh’s debut is about good versus evil, but with a Buddhist backdrop
Home and the World
Akhil Sharma’s new novel Family Life, 12 years in the making, is an immigrant saga partially gone wrong
The Wishful Advisor
In his controversial book, Sanjaya Baru wishes for a Manmohan Singh who does not exist, and in the process unmasks the one who does
A Family of Fine Taste
An unlettered carpet merchant and art dealer in Amritsar chanced upon the Pahari school of painting. His son keeps the legacy going with his prized collection of traditional painting, sculpture and textiles
The Anti Twilight
A new novel offers redemption for the gothic novel, taking us back to a time before vampires were kind, romantic and vegetarian
Reductive India
Another foreign correspondent falls for clichés in his haste to explain a country he has scarcely understood
The Young Man and the City
Celebrated Bengali novelist Sankar’s Thackeray Mansion offers a mosaic of the peoples and cultures that make up Calcutta
‘Love was the longing across an insuperable barrier’
A biographical novel reconstructs the years it took to write A Passage to India. Excerpts
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