Photojournalist Dhruva N Chaudhuri recounts the delight his father took in his practised eccentricity
Siddhartha Deb on how the city refined his ‘inbuilt shit detector’ and made him a more honest writer
Tarun Tejpal’s novel should be read to understand the world we live in, one that extremist ideologies have plunged into darkness
If Jug, like his Riverdale namesake, seems too laidback to be paying attention to weightier matters, you’ve been had
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’
Reading these graphic novel adaptations of Agatha Christie crime novels is like rediscovering an old friend
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
The Booker-winning author’s enthusiasm for bewildering metaphors is just one of his many literary failures
The style is reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, but Binoo K John works with a disadvantage. He writes in English
Non-fiction in the country comes of age with Aman Sethi’s book about life on the margins of society