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Books

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

A Dogmatic Goddess

The book is engaging, despite its excessive running commentary

Family Matters

Neel Mukherjee’s second novel gives us the Calcutta family in all its crumbling glory.

The last of the gentle humorists

A new translation of Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi’s book takes us back to a time in history that is slowly fading away.

The man who wrote a poem on a non-meeting

Ranjit Hoskote says anything can be good material for poetry if you can make it work

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

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