Books
Subcontinental Drift
Rahul Jayaram
Is your dominant image of Bangladesh floods and immigrants? Well, here’s another one from Shazia Omar’s debut novel: youth and drugs
Iron Lady of Manipur
Irom Sharmila believes a book has power. She’s right, the story of her life does carry the power to torment our conscience.
Che and the Art of Revolution
Behind the burning eyes of Che Guevara on a million T-shirts is a fearless, determined man who once killed a horse to eat it. This is him, in his own words
Soul Safari
Even less than two weeks in Kenya’s stunning wilderness makes for a coffee table book and a case for conservation. Could we expect anything less from India’s most eloquent tiger watcher?
The Beast Inside
The Booker Prize winning author writes brutally honest stories about love, loss and loneliness
Nectar in a Sieve
A slim but fine anthology captures the essential achievements of Tamil poetry from the Sangam period to contemporary times
Last Light
In Updike’s final collection of stories, published posthumously, death is a constant presence and it seems to have played an active role in his imagination
The Ever After Man
Farahad Zama is possibly the first man to win a romance writer’s prize. So watch out Barbara Cartland
Knight Vision
When an Aussie talks about cricket, the world stops to listen. But John Buchanan’s book disappoints. He envisions T20 as an Olympic sport, but has no original ideas to make this happen
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