The Way Things Were

2014 BOOKS REVIEW: EDITOR’S CHOICE

S Prasannarajan

The way things were • The zone of interest • The Myth of the strong leader • Thirteen days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

AN INDIAN ORIGINAL

S Prasannarajan

Aatish Taseer’s new novel is a modern classic on being Indian

“Modi must provide an intellectual alternative”

S Prasannarajan

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

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The Way Things Were

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