Lounge

Global Capital Rules, Okay?

Aresh Shirali

Not quite. Which explains both the strength and weakness of this ‘economic travelogue’ that tries to spot tomorrow’s winners

B&O Play Beolit 12

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

It’s pure music. This boom box plays audio without CD trays or wires and can be controlled without any buttons

Between Pre-modern and Modern Times

Basharat Peer

The adventures of Musharraf Ali Farooqi, who quit his job as a journalist in Pakistan to work in a packaging factory in Toronto and then at a fast-food joint, and translated and wrote books late into the night

Meeting God after 10 Years

Murtaza Razvi

They had parted ways and made up again after his 28th birthday. Only, He was no longer the compassionate God he knew. An extract from the forthcoming novel, God’s Own Progeny, by Pakistani journalist Murtaza Razvi, who was found murdered at his home last week

Blackberry 9920

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

An entry-level smartphone aimed at youngsters

The Lovey-Dovey Boys

Aastha Atray Banan

A bunch of young male writers has come to dominate India’s romance charts, once the preserve of female writers

The Writer’s Riyaaz

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Amit Chaudhuri on the death of the author-editor relationship, the boredom of being a novelist, and writing on his feet, literally

Sony Xperia S

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

This phone is fast on the uptake, and no mobile screen can match the sharpness of its display

The Reader’s Writer

Jyotirmoy Talukdar

Tabish Khair on why he doesn’t write for critics, his dislike of the term ‘postcolonial’, and how journalism helped him overcome his dread of deadlines

A Spanking New Bestseller

Rosalyn D’Mello

This could have been a Mills & Boon novel, but for its sado-masochistic twist. So what is it about this cliché-ridden book that is driving women in hordes to read it?