Books

Days of Rahmania

Kamini Mathai

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

‘The Sisters Think I’ll be Cursed for Writing’

Elizabeth Kuruvilla

A Cocktail of Contradictions

Kankana Basu

Expect the unexpected in this collection of short stories on everything from homicide to perversion

A Bible on Hinduism

Hartosh Singh Bal

Hinduism as we know it was a British creation. DN Jha reveals a few home truths

Review – The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Wielding the Kitchen Knife and a Pen

Avantika Bhuyan

A domestic help in Delhi, 35-year-old Halder stands a class apart from most Indian bestselling writers

A State Gone to Seed

Soutik Biswas

A collection of essays fails to shed new light on an old topic. The focus is on Pakistan, not on the great divide

Don Quixote Gallops to Bengal

Rahul Jayaram

A professor tilts his pen at libraries here and abroad to put back on the shelf a contemporary version of a Spanish classic in Bengali

Tiger Terrain

GH Perris

Prabhakaran was terrified of peace. He lived off terror. But how did the LTTE fund its campaigns of sustained violence? This riveting account explains how