The burden of traditional expectations. Unscrupulous doctors. New-age medical technology. This is not Dan Brown, this is real India
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
Translating epics like Hoshruba, etching graphic novels and the Urdu Project. Farooqi has a lot on his plate and he’s loving it
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
Justine Hardy’s third book on Kashmir focuses on post-1989 Kashmir through the story of Mohammed Dar and his family
How fuzzy minds affect buzzy times. A book that puts the economy on the couch to have its head examined
In his first collection of short stories, Kazuo Ishiguro shows us that this form is capable of handling the biggest of themes
It is rare for a film to inspire books on its theme, its principal characters or its creators. In that sense, the timing of Mathai’s book is a dead giveaway
Making music with AR Rahman is known to have driven many filmmakers up the wall. For, he hates deadlines as much as he craves musical perfection. An extract