David Davidar
Reading Marlon James’ Booker winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, a fireball of a novel, and wondering: What’s it that makes fiction great?
Margaret Atwood’s take on freedom versus security gets lost amid a pack of Elvis Presley sex robots
A thoughtless potboiler of a novel that doesn’t ask moral questions of its characters
This reassessment of Hrishikesh Mukherjee will inspire you to binge on his ever-relevant movies
This collection of stories brings out the enchantments of a faraway cultural zone
The much-misunderstood Sir Jadunath Sarkar gets his due—finally
Anand Ranganathan’s latest novel is a gripping tale of love and war set in the backdrop of the Mizo insurgency