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Books
Scotland Bard
Crime fiction maestro Ian Rankin on why detectives never marry, coffee with neighbours JK Rowling and Alexander McCall Smith, and tea conversations with Sharmila Tagore.
Darwin’s Poetry
The first woman to hold the Oxford chair in Poetry and the great-great-great-grand daughter of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel knows a thing or two about survival.
Jottings of an Adman
Take a journey into the viciously competitive world of India’s largest ad agency in this brilliantly bitchy book.
Time Travel to the Imperial Raj
Treacherous sea voyages, jungle hunts and wistful observations make for an engrossing read.
Existential Aaargh
The Marx Brothers were right. X’mas or not, there aint no ‘sanity clause’, not in book contracts.
Lethal Language
In Madhulika Liddle’s ‘historical’ crime novel set in Shahjahanabad, the most brutal murder is that of the Urdu language.
Sweet World
If Hrishikesh Mukherjee had ever tired his hand at writing fiction, he would have read a lot like this Farahad Zama’s The Marriage Bureau for Rich People or its sequel, The Many Conditions of Love.
Smashed Hard
Andre Agassi casts out the demons of his past by writing about his cursed tryst with the sport that made him an icon.
So, What Happened?
Lucid language, poignant moments and one hell of an ending. If only there was a plot to fill the 200-odd pages.
‘Curb Gay Rights, Curb Aids’
That’s the baseline prescription of Elizabeth Pisani, the author of a book on fighting the killer virus.
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