Books

‘Writing has a Religious Character’

Shaikh Ayaz

Aatish Taseer believes writing is an ‘intense form of concentration’, and when immersed in it, he often feels he can live without friends, family or lovers

The Memory Game

Parvati Sharma

A favourite for the Man Booker prize this year, Alan Hollinghurst’s country house novel may appear oddly familiar to Indian readers of English literature

Keep It Simple, Silly

Aresh Shirali

A for assets, B for blue-chips, C for cashflows… Going by these guides, personal investment is kid’s play

My Father, Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Photojournalist Dhruva N Chaudhuri recounts the delight his father took in his practised eccentricity

The New York Lessons

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Siddhartha Deb on how the city refined his ‘inbuilt shit detector’ and made him a more honest writer

Doubt and Dogma

Rahul Pandita

Tarun Tejpal’s novel should be read to understand the world we live in, one that extremist ideologies have plunged into darkness

Sounds Like Teen Spirit

Aresh Shirali

If Jug, like his Riverdale namesake, seems too laidback to be paying attention to weightier matters, you’ve been had

How to Survive as an Indie Publisher

Arpita Das

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’

Not Lost in Translation

Divya Saxena

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