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Sandip Ghose

Demystifying the Indian hotel industry

From the Spectral Island

Shehan Karunatilaka’s new novel is a whodunnit set in the afterlife. He tells Bhavya Dore that Sri Lanka is crawling with ghosts

The Art of Loss

A widower’s weekend of highs and lows in Bombay

Politics of Meat

Updating Ambedkar’s understanding of how untouchability came to be and what it has become today

Maps and Mavericks

A well-rounded and engaging summary of how Imperial Russia and Great Britain tussled over Central Asia

Capital Saga

Deepa Anappara’s debut novel, set in a slum in metropolitan India, has the pace of a thriller and the heart of a children’s tale

The Colony Writes Back

A magisterial rejoinder to the empire and its apologists

Poets and Proselytisers

The cliques, clans and defining moments of the 13th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival

Family Ways

Dharini Bhaskar’s debut novel is a lyrical exploration of relationships

The Sword of Nehru

Are we still paying for the sins of the first secular, socialist Prime Minister?

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