Nandini Nair
Kanishk Tharoor creates fiction not from a castle of fancies but from the realm of history
The best of crime fiction tells us that murder is sometimes the solution to greater malevolence
What adds spice to the memoirs of Padma Lakshmi, model and celebrity chef whose story stretches from conservative Madras to haute Manhattan, is the portrait of her ex-husband Salman Rushdie, ‘all arched-eyebrows’
A Sanskrit scholar from America returns to the Mughal court to trace its Indian cultural roots
As three historians return to the bloody evolution of 20th century Europe, we realise how the current cataclysms of a continent make it easier for us to understand its past
Poet-saint Andal’s work proves that she regards the body a site of the sacred as much as the soul
This translation of Sufi saint Shah Hussein’s work speaks in his voice but not in all its fullness
A master of ‘wet poems’ places the body at the centre of political and social structures
An ode to the Dalit singer Bant Singh explores the beauty and bloodiness of Punjab