When it comes to Naxal literature, the outsider’s gaze inevitably seems touristy and impatient. Turn to the accounts of insiders for the real thing
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Howard Jacobson’s Man Booker Prize winner is a searing search for Jewish identity
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VS Naipaul and Jonathan Franzen’s new writings lack meat. Blame their Brahminical standards of judging cultures different from their own
Writing about Peru, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, also writes about our reality
A history of everything you might have ever wanted to know about the countries of Central Asia
My son, apple of my scheming eyes, I have so many dreams for you...
This book on the rebels of Hindi cinema, the women who crossed into a forbidden zone, probes their minds too sparsely.
A copy of the Quran, parts of which were written by Mughal ruler Aurangzeb, will soon be auctioned in Germany.