Books
Love in the Time of Purdah
Saaz Aggarwal
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
Murder Most Foul
Was the gruesome killing of historian Papiya Ghosh linked to the book she was working on? We may never know, but we can now at least read her book
Bedtime Stories
Writer and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi on the pleasures of ‘acceptable porn’, the joys of Savita Bhabhi and his new anthology of erotic stories
A Life Less Ordinary
This Orange Prize winner lays bare the fissures in seemingly perfect relationships.
‘Much in Dan Brown’s Book Not True’
Mark Tabbert of George Washington Masonic Memorial tells us what he thinks of Dan Brown’s latest effort.
Happy Birthday, Uncle Pai
Anant Pai, the adoptive ‘Uncle’ of generations of Indian children, has turned 80. Pity we can’t find an adequate gift for the man who gave us so much joy?
Blockbookster
Simpsons writer Larry Doyle’s first novel is already a movie. And the second looks set to follow suit.
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