Books
The Catch
Aresh Shirali
On 10 November, Catch-22 turns 50. But rereading this classic still challenges sanity. So too, some of the books it seems to have inspired
Sonia, an Uncritical View
Clearly, a book for a foreign readership by an ill-informed writer. Why foist this on us?
“The longer you live somewhere, the less you see”
William Dalrymple on why he will never be able to write City of Djinns again, and on isolating himself in his world of books
His Hollow Men
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
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
‘Don’t Read My Books with a Red Pen in Your Hand’
Chetan Bhagat scratches his head over criticism of his books, and talks of writing as an emotional endeavour
A Hindi Film on Paper
The reaction of a literary snob on turning the pages of a Chetan Bhagat book for the first time
Nowhere Men
Alien cults, Wall Street analysts, missionaries, ethnologists and rockstars go on an existential quest in the desert
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