Books
His Hollow Men
Amitabha Bagchi
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
Cricket’s Bad Boy
Shoaib Akhtar’s autobiography is a bitter man’s rant against his more accomplished peers
The F Word
At a time when many women are rejecting the ‘feminist’ label, those who led India’s first wave of feminism review the battles they fought
‘The Discipline of the Short Story is Terrifying’
Alan Hollinghurst on fighting laziness, living in the world of his novels and the pressures of being a gay writer
Couplet Omlette
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s translations of Kabir, with a generous dose of American slang, are awkward at times. But the remix experiment is worth the risk of failure
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