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Home Is Elsewhere
Shahnaz Habib
One of Sri Lanka’s most compelling voices plays with ideas of displacement
Loose Canon
Shashi Tharoor takes on everything from Modi to the significance of birthdays with his elegant prose, but spreads his umbrella too wide
Immortal Frenzy
A calligrapher’s vivid account of the friendship between the great mystic Rumi and an itinerant dervish is spun into a masterful novel
The Master and the Neighbour
The best cricket book you will read this year, from Pakistan, outscores a passionate commemoration of the Tendulkar legacy
Back Together
The biggest bromance in contemporary literary history comes full circle at JLF, as VS Naipaul and Paul Theroux drive out together
“I did not create hot scenes between Sonia Gandhi and the Dalai Lama”
Author Javier Moro on the release of his controversial book, The Red Sari, and why the life of Sonia Gandhi fascinates him
Political Islam is afraid of sex, says Hanif Kureishi
Talking about women's writing and talking about sex may soon be passé, two of today’s sessions suggest
Farewell Exotica
Granta’s second India issue brings together a new crop of writers who don’t quite up the ante
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