Books
‘Yes, I Don’t Like Pakistan’
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie speaks of a failure called Pakistan, and why his lawyer told him proving Indira Gandhi was not of good character was the only way to save his skin
The Long Bore
The story is about the author’s father who travels down memory lane beginning from pre-Partition Hindustan, and everything else afterward
Critical Condition
Last fortnight, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was nominated for the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Here, he lambastes English literary sensibility in India
New Book, Old Murthy
The book is a collection of his speeches and, unlike his colleague Nilekani (who wrote Imagining India), does not work on a roadmap for India
What Orwell Owes to Motihari
The great novelist was born in Bihar. Who cares to remember? None, if the derelict state of his house is any indication
Riot and Wrong
As the Jarnail Singh incident reminds us, the 1984 anti-Sikh riots still rankle. This essay from Khushwant Singh’s Why I Supported the Emergency explains why
Good Khan, Bad Khan
John Man’s book on the warrior king Genghis Khan tries hard to make a leadership guru out of him. And falls flat
A Working Proposition
Bestselling author Alain de Botton on his latest book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, and why he wrote it.
Cricket Casino
If the BCCI hadn’t played spoilsport, Lalit Modi’s gamble for big money league would have hit the jackpot a decade ago. Excerpts from a new book
My Punjab, Their Punjab
Aatish Taseer and Daniyal Mueenuddin’s books revisit their fathers’ land to reveal the contradiction between Islam and feudal authority in Pakistan
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