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Lessons Unlearnt

Aju John

The Uphaar tragedy highlights the Indian habit of regularising exceptional illegality

Found in Translation

Arshia Sattar’s version of the Ramayana’s final book raises questions on Rama’s actions

Books: Highlights of 2017

Adrian Levy & Cathrine Scott-Clark | Wendy Doniger | Michel Pastoureau | Pankaj Mishra | Arundhati Roy | Paula Hawkins | Paul Auster | Hari Kunzru | Amit Chaudhuri | George Saunders | JRR Tolkien

Books: Best of 2016

From the architecture of the gene to the oral histories of men and women in the former USSR, this year’s best books reveal what it is to be human

An Enduring Enigma

This is a necessary book about a neglected man, and it’s all the more creditable that a foreigner should have taken the trouble to write it

Dancing with Zadie Smith

Family, friendship and identity—one of English fiction’s most celebrated young writers returns to familiar turf

From Chennai with Love

Goddesses and divas populate this first fiction

Blessed and Cursed

Amruta Patil in her graphic retelling of the Mahabharata reimagines women as epic beings

Martin Amis: ‘It is Very Satisfying—Killing People’

Martin Amis talks about Donald Trump’s sexuality and Islamic fanaticism

The Beautiful Blood Ceremony

What the best of Japanese noir says about democracy, authenticity and the nation

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