Books
Phantoms of the Mind
Sudha G. Tilak
A novel about ghosts that are as real as the evil in human hearts
The Emperor’s New Portrait
A BBC journalist wades into Mughal history to paint a picture of the fifth emperor in miniature detail, up close and thrilling
Minute Made
We bring you ‘Postmortem’, a short story by Amitava Kumar, which was a contender for the Three-Minute Fiction contest on US National Public Radio.
Blast from the Past
A Hitchhiker’s Guide for the inter-galactic tourist with a mission? The lunacy of Douglas Adams sure is dead
Mostly Harmless
A conversation with Eoin Colfer, author of the bestselling Artemis Fowl series and the sixth book of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Keeping the Faiths
A bad review is like a slap on the face, says William Dalrymple on the release of his latest book, Nine Lives
Love in the Time of Purdah
If you loved Persepolis and wept over Not Without My Daughter, this one’s for you.
‘My Books are not that Great’
Writer Chetan Bhagat on the arduous task of ‘simple’ writing, his Booker dream and on scripting his own Bollywood role
India Untold
Nine Lives is proof that Dalrymple knows this country better than most Indians, but it also displays a creeping complacency in writing about it.
The Indian Art of Murder
We know Sherlock ‘elementary’ Holmes, we know Hercule ‘little grey cells’ Poirot and we know Philip ‘I collect blondes and bottles’ Marlowe. Now, several writers are making a pitch for the next great detective—from India
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