Adventures of Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Death of the Urban Village

Mumbai’s Shanghai dream involves ‘saving’ Dharavi by first razing it. As this extract shows, this benefits nobody more than the corrupt builder-politician lobby

Canon SX 200 IS

Good build quality, great pictures, very good image handling at lower ISOs and a great flash. Not a camera worth missing

In The Valley of Mist

Justine Hardy’s third book on Kashmir focuses on post-1989 Kashmir through the story of Mohammed Dar and his family

Rawlsian Roulette

How fuzzy minds affect buzzy times. A book that puts the economy on the couch to have its head examined

The Hotel at the End of the World

Look Ma! I’m Hot

What would your infant say if he were running a temperature? But this dress can scream, ‘Hey, he’s running a fever’

Melancholy’s Children

In his first collection of short stories, Kazuo Ishiguro shows us that this form is capable of handling the biggest of themes

The Slumdog Industry

It is rare for a film to inspire books on its theme, its principal characters or its creators. In that sense, the timing of Mathai’s book is a dead giveaway

Days of Rahmania

Making music with AR Rahman is known to have driven many filmmakers up the wall. For, he hates deadlines as much as he craves musical perfection. An extract