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Books
Among the Smallest Storytellers
Notes from a weekend spent at the Bookaroo Festival of Children’s Literature—a buoyant breeding ground for young readers
The Asianist
Writing about South East Asia, Tash Aw explores the confusion of new personal and political freedoms, privileging emotional authenticity over exotic detail
Postponing the Punchline
Shovon Chowdhury’s debut novel The Competent Authority has some big funny ideas, but is too long in the telling
The Interpolator
In his new book, Husain Haqqani attempts to bridge the gap of understanding between the US and Pakistan
Recipes and Reminiscences
For Ruskin Bond and Ganesh Saili, authors of the The Landour Cookbook, good food is comfort food
A Graphic Recollection
A recently published anthology of visual narratives of Partition revisits a haunting part of history with mixed results
“The history of racism varies with the decades… like fashion”
As part of a monthly conversation series organised by Open at Smoke House Deli, William Dalrymple spoke to Pavan K Varma about writing for a foreign audience, romanticising the Raj, and much else . Excerpts:
The Man Who Would Be Mahatma
Would Gandhi still be interesting if he’d never made it to India in 1914? Ramachandra Guha answers: ‘absolutely.’
What Are Men to Rocks and Mountains?
Field geologist and Earth Sciences Professor Mike Searle shares his expertise on the shifting plates beneath our feet
Legal Landscape
Zia Mody’s 10 Judgements That Changed India offers a quick and succinct, if somewhat dry, insight into India’s judicial journey
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