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The Anonymity of Greatness

Gillian Wright

The Urdu novelist who has slipped out of the pantheon

Sublime Sex

Women between desire and despair

Among the Brahmins

It is the tension between cultural memory and current political anxieties about change that gives this riverside saga by Aatish Taseer the kind of literary urgency we hardly see in the writings on India

Cavils without Context

Tharoor doesn’t even try to get into Modi’s mind

Sharmila Sen: Being the Other

The Indian-American author Sharmila Sen presents a compelling portrait of the immigrant experience

Range of the Radical

Two books explore the influence of Salafism

The Big Picture

A graphic statement of life and art

Carlo Pizzati: Intimate Stranger

Being an Italian son-in-law in India

Cosmic Enchantment

Once again inside the Black Hole with Stephen Hawking

Some Home Truths

The author of 'Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition' responds to Ravi Joshi’s review of his book

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