Best of Books 2024: My Choice

Best of 2023 Books: My Choice

Pratap Bhanu Mehta | William Dalrymple | David Davidar | Aatish Taseer | KR Meera | Manu S Pillai | Janice Pariat | Amit Chaudhuri | Jerrry Pinto | Namita Gokhale | Tishani Doshi

My Choice

Pratap Bhanu Mehta | William Dalrymple | David Davidar | Aatish Taseer | KR Meera | Manu S Pillai | Srinath Raghavan | Jerry Pinto | Tishani Doshi | Namita Gokhale

Languorous Unfoldings

An anthology by young writers that spans Mughal nostalgia to present dystopias

My Choice

Pratap Bhanu Mehta | William Dalrymple | Amit Chaudhuri | David Davidar | Ira Mukhoti | Aatish Taseer | Arundhati Subramaniam | KR Meera | TCA Raghavan | Tridip Suhrud | Tishani Doshi | Mani Shankar Aiyar | Mini Kapoor

My Choice of Best of 2019 Books: David Davidar, Author and publisher

Ocean Vuong | Kevin Barry

Best of 2019: My Choice

Pratap Bhanu Mehta | David Davidar | William Dalrymple | Aatish Taseer | Shashi Tharoor | Tishani Doshi | Mani Shankar Aiyar | Srinath Raghavan | Arshia Sattar | KR Meera | Keerthik Sasidharan | Sudeep Paul

Best of 2015 Books: My Choice

‘The Best is Not Necessarily Literary’

David Davidar explains why publishers can’t afford to invest time and money on their authors, and goads writers to start taking risks

The House of Dimming Halos

The higher they rise, the harder they fall. David Davidar was the superstar of Indian publishing. Now sexual harassment charges by a former colleague threaten his career, and his reputation.