Books
The Ever After Man
Sohini Chattopadhyay
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
The Matron’s Burden
Padma Viswanathan’s debut novel walks back through two centuries to reflect on the Brahmin’s burden and Tamil lineage through a feminine perspective
Desperate Motherhood
The burden of traditional expectations. Unscrupulous doctors. New-age medical technology. This is not Dan Brown, this is real India
Missing the Link
Ida, the 47 million-year-old primate fossil unveiled to the public a little over a month ago, was an important discovery. But not for the reasons that this book sets out to establish
Adventures of Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Translating epics like Hoshruba, etching graphic novels and the Urdu Project. Farooqi has a lot on his plate and he’s loving it
Death of the Urban Village
Mumbai’s Shanghai dream involves ‘saving’ Dharavi by first razing it. As this extract shows, this benefits nobody more than the corrupt builder-politician lobby
In The Valley of Mist
Justine Hardy’s third book on Kashmir focuses on post-1989 Kashmir through the story of Mohammed Dar and his family
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