A skillful biography that does not deserve any of the media brouhaha around its ‘sensational’ bits
Chronicling the past as well as documenting the contemporary, Banerjee playfully counts our losses
Tracing a Ruskin Bond story to a Vishal Bhardwaj screenplay, and discovering what got lost in the process
That’s the right time to send it to the editor, says the bestseller man who writes in complete silence and pure isolation
How the taboos of a language change, and what they say about its speakers
An alternative history of the world told through objects—some seminal and others refreshingly ordinary
With five books from four publishers in recent months, gay writing has finally come to market. But these are not ‘coming out’ stories
How land meant for farmers displaced by Partition later housed the rich and powerful of Delhi, one of them being Indira Gandhi.
This World Cup, when the live action gets boring, turn to this slickly written tale of Sri Lankan politics told through the story of an elusive, fabled cricketer
A Yale professor’s tough-love parenting memoir has stirred up America, what with Ivy Leaguers backing the Chinese approach. A report from Yale