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A Family of Fine Taste

Sohini Chattopadhyay

An unlettered carpet merchant and art dealer in Amritsar chanced upon the Pahari school of painting. His son keeps the legacy going with his prized collection of traditional painting, sculpture and textiles

The Anti Twilight

Gunjeet Sra

A new novel offers redemption for the gothic novel, taking us back to a time before vampires were kind, romantic and vegetarian

Pentax Q7 Premium Kit

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

A limited edition of the world’s smallest interchangeable lens camera system

TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 5 Automatic

arindam

A collection for professional drivers and sports car enthusiasts

Reductive India

Prayaag Akbar

Another foreign correspondent falls for clichés in his haste to explain a country he has scarcely understood

The Young Man and the City

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Celebrated Bengali novelist Sankar’s Thackeray Mansion offers a mosaic of the peoples and cultures that make up Calcutta

Astell & Kern AK240

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

This high-end portable music player takes hi-fi to an altogether new level

‘Love was the longing across an insuperable barrier’

Damon Galgut

A biographical novel reconstructs the years it took to write A Passage to India. Excerpts

Forster in Love

Devika Bakshi

Damon Galgut’s biographical novel prises from EM Forster’s writings and relationships a portrait of a writer whose work was defined by his fraught sexuality