This many-layered novel, about a folk-hero and his fabulous moustache, examines the nature of story-telling— how people, animals and places can be kept alive through the narratives built around them
Samanth Subramanian portrays the many lives of JBS Haldane to perfection
The withdrawal of the filmmaker’s book from publication reopens a debate on cancel culture
A physician-scientist writes a social satire plus supernatural drama set in an unnamed Indian village
Akhil Katyal tells Urvashi Bahuguna how he finds Delhi crazily unequal and maddeningly beautiful
So all is Peace is a tearjerker guised as a mystery, masked in social commentary