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The Memory Game
Parvati Sharma
A favourite for the Man Booker prize this year, Alan Hollinghurst’s country house novel may appear oddly familiar to Indian readers of English literature
Keep It Simple, Silly
A for assets, B for blue-chips, C for cashflows… Going by these guides, personal investment is kid’s play
My Father, Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri
Photojournalist Dhruva N Chaudhuri recounts the delight his father took in his practised eccentricity
The New York Lessons
Siddhartha Deb on how the city refined his ‘inbuilt shit detector’ and made him a more honest writer
Doubt and Dogma
Tarun Tejpal’s novel should be read to understand the world we live in, one that extremist ideologies have plunged into darkness
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
If Jug, like his Riverdale namesake, seems too laidback to be paying attention to weightier matters, you’ve been had
How to Survive as an Indie Publisher
It takes more than just the belief that there exists a market for ‘alternative’ books. It takes an intense dedication to quality and plenty of gumption, says Yoda Press’
Not Lost in Translation
Reading these graphic novel adaptations of Agatha Christie crime novels is like rediscovering an old friend
Gag Order
Censorship by any other name. Slap a defamation suit and leave it to our tardy legal system to ensure the offending material never gets out. B-school guru Arindam Chaudhuri is the latest practitioner of the art
First Candidate for a Cold Shower
The Booker-winning author’s enthusiasm for bewildering metaphors is just one of his many literary failures
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