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The Booker Shortlist
Rajni George
An art adventure; the American cynic; dystopian love; the Burma Death Railway; a very Bengali tale; and a monkey girl
Turning a new page
It’s transition time in Indian publishing families as a new generation faces a difficult market with daring ideas
7 shades of summer
Madhavankutty Pillai • Gunjeet Sra • Sunaina Kumar • Aastha Atray Banan • Aanchal Bansal • Rajni George • Shaikh Ayaz • Lhendup G Bhutia • and others
The gatherings of the season
From travel and movies to books and food, a collection of all things cool this summer
The replacement thrillers
Who are the new Stieg Larssons? This season’s crime novels are bigger, badder and sometimes better
The man who wrote a poem on a non-meeting
Ranjit Hoskote says anything can be good material for poetry if you can make it work
A Graphic Recollection
A recently published anthology of visual narratives of Partition revisits a haunting part of history with mixed results
“The history of racism varies with the decades… like fashion”
As part of a monthly conversation series organised by Open at Smoke House Deli, William Dalrymple spoke to Pavan K Varma about writing for a foreign audience, romanticising the Raj, and much else . Excerpts:
Small Things for Empathy
How literary fiction makes one more empathetic and better at reading people
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