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Alone and Away

Urvashi Butalia

Taslima Nasrin’s unending search for home

A War in Memory

A debut novelist from Sri Lanka returns to war-torn Jaffna in search of questions history has not resolved

Free Spirit

A memoir that straddles the personal and the political, the intimate and the public

Playing in the Dark

Aravind Adiga bats against a country ‘phixed and phucked’—like a white tiger

The Heart of Darkness

The redemptive power of storytelling sets this novel about religious terrorism apart

Out of Africa

The frailties and fantasies of this Man Booker shortlisted novel make it a quiet classic

The Original Rebel

Krishna Sobti’s novel looks at tradition and modernity through a non-conformist lens

The Enigma of Evil

This realistic portrait of post-traumatic madness is a moral fable as well

“Modi must provide an intellectual alternative”

Aatish Taseer's new novel, The Way Things Were, is an Indian classic spanning the eventful decades between the Emergency and the advent of Modi, set in Lutyens' Delhi. The novelist in conversation with the Editor of Open magazine

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mira Nair’s translation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel into cinema is riveting

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