Books
The Slumdog Industry
Rahul Jayaram
It is rare for a film to inspire books on its theme, its principal characters or its creators. In that sense, the timing of Mathai’s book is a dead giveaway
Days of Rahmania
Making music with AR Rahman is known to have driven many filmmakers up the wall. For, he hates deadlines as much as he craves musical perfection. An extract
A Cocktail of Contradictions
Expect the unexpected in this collection of short stories on everything from homicide to perversion
Wielding the Kitchen Knife and a Pen
A domestic help in Delhi, 35-year-old Halder stands a class apart from most Indian bestselling writers
A State Gone to Seed
A collection of essays fails to shed new light on an old topic. The focus is on Pakistan, not on the great divide
Don Quixote Gallops to Bengal
A professor tilts his pen at libraries here and abroad to put back on the shelf a contemporary version of a Spanish classic in Bengali
Tiger Terrain
Prabhakaran was terrified of peace. He lived off terror. But how did the LTTE fund its campaigns of sustained violence? This riveting account explains how
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