Aastha Atray Banan
William Dalrymple on why he will never be able to write City of Djinns again, and on isolating himself in his world of books
Shrilal Shukla passed away last week. But his books bear witness to man’s fundamental yearning for a moral life
The Two Faces of Bishan Singh Bedi In a country where biographies are akin to hagiographies, Suresh Menon’s book on the spin bowler is refreshingly objective
Chetan Bhagat scratches his head over criticism of his books, and talks of writing as an emotional endeavour
The reaction of a literary snob on turning the pages of a Chetan Bhagat book for the first time
Alien cults, Wall Street analysts, missionaries, ethnologists and rockstars go on an existential quest in the desert
Shoaib Akhtar’s autobiography is a bitter man’s rant against his more accomplished peers
At a time when many women are rejecting the ‘feminist’ label, those who led India’s first wave of feminism review the battles they fought