Books

A Modern City, Forever Old

Sumana Roy

Amit Chaudhuri’s window to Calcutta shows a city where incompatible things miraculously coexist

When Bella Meets Heathcliff

Gunjeet Sra

From Sylvia Plath to Emily Bronte, publishers are unapologetically lending a light touch to the packaging of literary classics by women

Everyman’s Tale

Rahul Pandita

Taj Hassan’s largely unnoticed novel recreates the complexities of life in Maoist-strong zones

The Binge Writer

Devika Bakshi

Madeline Miller can write for 14 hours a day and still maintains she does not deserve to be called a writer. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2012

Pataudi, through Many Eyes

Akshay Sawai

This tribute to Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi brings into clear focus the cricketer who broke regional barriers in India’s dressing room

The Perils of ChickLit

arindam

Psychological hazards may lurk between the covers of such books

The Difficulty of Being Invisible

Chinki Sinha

Mayank Austen Soofi has a very instrusive presence on the pages of his book on the lives of Delhi’s sex workers

The book Spies from Space: The Isro Frame-up detailed how the real traitors in the Isro espionage case were CIA moles in India’s Intelligence Bureau. Is that why the book quickly disappeared from bookstores?