David Davidar
What is it about Ruskin Bond’s work that gives it its extraordinary vitality and luminosity?
An inquiry into Gandhi’s death fails to put him in the historical context of the Subcontinent
Starcrossed lovers revive Allahabad’s glory days in this charming if dated translation—and the lingering gender debate
Novelist Kiran Nagarkar’s once-censored play is in print at last, with a fast-paced new screenplay
In his latest outing, Karl Ove Knausgaard portrays himself as a teenager with literary ambition
A novel about a Dutch-Pakistani girl coming of age in Zia’s Islamabad
Wicked stories from the Booker queen, a tortuous new bestseller, a neo-feminist manifesto and a master’s odd experiment
An Indologist from Italy reflects on the rapture that religion offers as an experience