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The Endearing Paradoxes of Vajpayee

Mukund Padmanabhan

Sagarika Ghose brings out the qualities and contradictions of India’s most indulged prime minister in a new biography

Pankaj Mishra : Polemist as Novelist

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel that chronicles rapid urbanisation in an unequal India. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s hollow men and class wars

The Magic of Mermaids

Sharanya Manivannan uses fantastical elements to talk about Sri Lanka’s trauma

Theatre of the Everyday

S Hareesh’s short stories highlight his ability to work in the epic and mundane mode at the same time

The Door Closes

When you marry a narcissist

Meeting Our Doppelgängers with Hervé Le Tellier

‘The Anomaly’ and the possibilities of the novel

The Haunting of History

Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel, set in 1950s Guatemala, is a warning for our times

Lingering Shadows

The pathos and prowess of three recent poetry collections

Kunal Basu: Our Brave New Worlds

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

The Critical Insider

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

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