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Sony Ericsson Live Walkman
Gagandeep Singh Sapra
The Walkman phone’s latest avatar. Not high on specs but as fast as the best
Don’t Say Goodbye Yet
Not after you made us wait 35 years. Not after this thrilling new collection of poems, subtle and intricate and so mature. Not just yet, Adil Jussawalla
Bombay in His Veins
Kiran Nagarkar was watching movies to put off writing, but ended up writing a novel set in Bollywood
The Poetry of the Unsettled
A protagonist of great sensitivity and disaffection earns debut novelist Teju Cole formidable comparisons
Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer II
This is a watch you could take to the North Pole, but that’s not what makes it great
Rhythm and Blues
Jeet Thayil is a fine poet, and you see his talent in Narcopolis. But this is performance poetry masquerading as a novel
A Murder Analysed, A City Revealed
Journalist Meenal Baghel manages to make a thrilling read of one of the most over-reported crimes of our times, widening its scope to offer a portrait
A Mixed-Up Mills & Boon
The Harlequin formula is ‘hot boy falls for curvy girl and live fuzzily ever after’. Aastha Atray Banan’s attempt to bring in life after romance pops the glorious mirage that M&B entitles us to
Love, Sex Aur Maafi
In this 18th century erotic poem banned by the British, the courtesan Muddupalani gives us Radha, a feminist and sexual woman in rage over Krishna’s ‘betrayal’
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