M Mukundan’s award-winning biography of a city reveals Delhi’s underbelly with compassion. The author tells Antara Raghavan why a river of sorrow runs beneath his stories
Beloved fiction writers turn to nonfiction, celebrities turn into memoirists and historians travel in time
After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel. Upamanyu Chatterjee makes his debut as a crime writer. Booker-winning authors Julian Barnes and Douglas Stuart release their much awaited novels
A behind-the-scenes account of the creation of India’s states and Union Territories
Tariq Ali reports from the fault lines of Afghanistan to make sense of its current trauma