Lounge

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?

HP Z1

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

The world’s first workstation in an all-in-one format

The Subaltern Sings

Shruti Ravindran

Gogu Shyamala, a Dalit feminist and Telangana activist, writes captivating short stories about life in rural Andhra Pradesh

2013 Lexus GS 350

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

This car is packed with so much technology, you literally need a mouse to navigate it

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