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The General and the Half-and-Half
Rajni George
A novel about a Dutch-Pakistani girl coming of age in Zia’s Islamabad
God is in the Details
An Indologist from Italy reflects on the rapture that religion offers as an experience
Dazed and Confused
A seething knot of a coming of age story shows how India’s 90s generation deals with drugs, sex, magic mushrooms and, of course, divorce
Provocateur’s Remedy
A journalist employs black comedy to highlight all that is wrong with India’s economy
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
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