A bad review is like a slap on the face, says William Dalrymple on the release of his latest book, Nine Lives
If you love books and are tired of waiting for them to land in your bookshop, Kindle is your friend
If you loved Persepolis and wept over Not Without My Daughter, this one’s for you.
Though 12 megapixels and 7x zoom may not interest everyone, it is still one of the slimmest cameras, with brilliant performance.
Writer Chetan Bhagat on the arduous task of ‘simple’ writing, his Booker dream and on scripting his own Bollywood role
Nine Lives is proof that Dalrymple knows this country better than most Indians, but it also displays a creeping complacency in writing about it.
We know Sherlock ‘elementary’ Holmes, we know Hercule ‘little grey cells’ Poirot and we know Philip ‘I collect blondes and bottles’ Marlowe. Now, several writers are making a pitch for the next great detective—from India
I love the way this TV looks, and would seriously consider it for a wire-free home. If only they could power it wirelessly as well
Was the gruesome killing of historian Papiya Ghosh linked to the book she was working on? We may never know, but we can now at least read her book
Writer and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi on the pleasures of ‘acceptable porn’, the joys of Savita Bhabhi and his new anthology of erotic stories