Lounge

One Hundred Years of Good Girlitude

Saba Imtiaz

The lessons of Bahishti Zevar, advising Muslim women to defer to their husbands and never consider them their equals, are still popular with talk show hosts in Pakistan

When Something Works

Tabish Khair

As with her first collection of poems, Tishani Doshi’s best poems here are those in which a female experience, located boldly in the body, works as a comment on something larger

Nikon D4

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

A camera so fast and versatile that anyone can capture that perfect moment

The Free Man

Annie Zaidi

Ah, the joys of reading a diasporic story that’s not angsting itself silly over finding one’s roots

The New iPad

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

Apple has not called it iPad 3, but iPad 2 would still be proud of it

All Noisy on the Western Front

Aresh Shirali

How did the West suddenly get so much richer than the East about 350 years ago? Another book on business history, another explanation

Bose CineMate 1 SR

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

A wireless sound bar that is smarter than the TV set it has to serve

MotoActv

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

This gadget can pick just the music your workout needs so that you push yourself harder

Legendary Bharatanatyam dancer Balasaraswati’s story, as told by her son-in-law, is pleasant enough but it glosses over the debate at the heart of the art form—the abuse inherent in the devadasi system