books

Lingering Shadows

Aditya Mani Jha

The pathos and prowess of three recent poetry collections

Kunal Basu: Our Brave New Worlds

Antara Raghavan

Kunal Basu’s latest novel explores the conflict between different versions of India

The Critical Insider

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Writer and politician Javed Jabbar tells the tale of his tangled relations with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Benazir Bhutto

Friends or Foes?

Siddharth Singh

Paul Staniland decodes government responses to armed groups

String Theory

Geeta Doctor

The warp and weft of the Indian subcontinent

Life’s Longing for Itself

Chintan Girish Modi

Sport and religion play out on the badminton court

‘Writing Is Somewhat a Masochistic Activity’

Antara Raghavan

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

Dignity for All

Nanditha Krishna

The changing status of transgenders in India

The Rustle of Arguments

Nandini Nair

Beloved fiction writers turn to nonfiction, celebrities turn into memoirists and historians travel in time

The Garden of Forking Paths

Nandini Nair

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