books

Parini Shroff: The Queen’s Gambit

Shreevatsa Nevatia

Parini Shroff’s debut novel is packed with useless husbands and spunky women. The author speaks about bringing comedy and tragedy together in an Indian village

Monkey Business

Arunima Mazumdar

A dream-like sequence, set around two boys, of the history of Bangladesh

The Soft and Hard City

Jaideep Unudurti

A photographer’s personal journey charts Hyderabad’s trajectory

Leave Agatha Christie Alone

Shylashri Shankar

To censor books is to overlook the social contexts they were set in

A Dragon in the Garden

Fehmida Zakeer

When people encounter the unknown

A Passage to India

Navtej Sarna

The diplomatic manoeuvrings behind the East India Company

Memoirs of Water

Nandini Nair

Abraham Verghese’s new novel is a sprawling family saga steeped in history. The physician-author speaks about medicine and writing, faith and families