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The Novel and Its Discontents

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?

Medieval Alchemy

A war adventure where disparate elements are held together by clever plotting

Falling Leaves

Can tea survive coffee in India?

Urban Dystopia

Margaret Atwood’s take on freedom versus security gets lost amid a pack of Elvis Presley sex robots

Slapdash Sexuality

A thoughtless potboiler of a novel that doesn’t ask moral questions of its characters

To Break an Absurd Record

Two friends take a leap of faith in this fictionalised memoir

Director’s Cut

This reassessment of Hrishikesh Mukherjee will inspire you to binge on his ever-relevant movies

In the Land of Blue Hills

This collection of stories brings out the enchantments of a faraway cultural zone

Redeeming the Historian From History

The much-misunderstood Sir Jadunath Sarkar gets his due—finally

Passion Play

Anand Ranganathan’s latest novel is a gripping tale of love and war set in the backdrop of the Mizo insurgency

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