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Books
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
Too Much Life
Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel The Lowland is oddly compelling; tiring, yet insisting on meaning
No Questions Please
Unsuccessful attempts at the Berlin International Book Festival to understand how the reclusive JM Coetzee’s mind works
The Miracle Maker
A new book revisits the film Amar Akbar Anthony and shines light on director Manmohan Desai’s enduring legacy
Manufacturing Hope
Lavanya Sankaran’s aptly named first novel The Hope Factory is the latest in formulaic fiction from the Subcontinent
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