Lounge

The Anonymity Effect

Aimee Ginsburg

If you look past its author’s name and ‘Nobel prize winner’ appellation, Home is a taut read with a jazzy rhythm—till you reach a revelation that makes you squirm

Nikon V1

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

It’s neither a compact camera nor an SLR. But it’s highly portable and takes great pictures

IOGear Wireless 3D HDTV Kit

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

A TV transmitter that frees you of that jumble of wires at home

Synaptic Sizzle

Aresh Shirali

A book that puts the brain under a scanner to make scientific sense of creativity

A Rotten but Not Entirely Unlikeable Man

Arshia Sattar

A corrupt underling is as crooked as the system he works in, but Bagchi’s quiet, masterly prose leaves you with sympathy for his morally bankrupt protagonist

Blaft from the Past

Achal Prabhala

An independent publishing house based in Chennai has brought the joy back to reading with pure, unadulterated pulp fiction

The Writer Who Doesn’t Mind the Northeastern Label

Jyotirmoy Talukdar

Jahnavi Barua on geographic labelling as a pragmatic exercise, giving up her medical practice, and making it to prestigious literary prize shortlists

Breguet Marine Tourbillon Chronograph—Platinum Version

arindam

A bold new platinum edition of the all-gold favourite launched in 2007

Cartoons by the Colonised

Shruti Ravindran

The pre-Independence Parsee Punch offers political comment and gently subversive humour

Maa Maati Manush, and Motor Cars

Sumana Roy

Mamata Banerjee’s career has been bound to the automobile in strange ways. No wonder, then, the reader of her memoirs soon starts to play a game of car-spotting in the narrative