Books

Shillong Tales

Lhendup G Bhutia

In this beautiful collection of short stories, where the everyday blends with the supernatural, Janice Pariat tells the story of Shillong and its people

The Fast and the Epicurious

Madhavankutty Pillai

Boria Majumdar is no masterchef, but for someone new to the kitchen, his recipes are effective and unintimidating

Banking on God

Aanchal Bansal

The success of Amish Tripathi’s Meluha series has led to a surfeit of mythological thrillers

Sheep in Wolf Attire

Kalpish Ratna

Naomi Wolf’s new book on the vagina is as misogynistic as they come

Heartbreak Central

Chinki Sinha

Junot Diaz’s stories of love, especially the wreckage of love, hit where it hurts most

The Difficulty of Being Reformist

Aresh Shirali

And why Das shouldn’t count on Raj Dharma as a saviour of the Indian economy

The Anatomy of Grey

Sonali Kokra

Critics have panned it. Even those hooked to the books admit there’s nothing much to the story. So what makes the Fifty Shades trilogy such a gasping success?

Who Has Heard of Morbi?

arindam

It’s strange that one can completely forget a tragedy like the collapse of the Machhu Dam II in Gujarat, which led to the death of nearly 25,000 people

The Importance of Being Earnest

Elizabeth Kuruvilla

Writers cannot live in a vacuum, isolated from political currents anymore, says Pankaj Mishra

The RAW Files

Hartosh Singh Bal

A former intelligence officer writes a gripping and thinly disguised fictional account of the case of Rabinder Singh, an Indian spy who went rogue and escaped to the US