A study of Pakistan’s pervasive military influence masters the broad strokes of its history but lacks the insight of intimacy
An empathetic portrait of the Sri Lankan Civil War gives powerful voice to the living and the dead
A first-hand study of Pashtuns offers a native’s perspective often lost on world capitals
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A limited edition pictorial guide to Varanasi returns a rare British Library map to India after more than a century
Zia Haider Rahman’s first novel, In the Light of What We Know, is already the literary event of the year (reviewed in Open, ‘A Groundbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’, 23 June 2014). Born in Bangladesh and educated at Oxford, Cambridge and Yale, Rahman has worked as an investment banker and human rights lawyer. The novelist in conversation with S Prasannarajan, editor, Open magazine
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A first novel offers sharp visuals and flashes of insight into the city but falls victim to the very banality it projects onto its hapless subjects
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