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‘A Suitable Boy’: Meet the characters in Vikram Seth’s novel whom you will see on the show
A quick guide to the women and men whom viewers will encounter on Mira Nair’s adaptation of the novel for the BBC. → Read More
Women’s Day: Eight books that talk of being a woman in India, circa 2019
They have nothing in common besides the authenticity of their voices. → Read More
Nayantara Sahgal on #MeToo: ‘In a democracy, no citizen is guilty because someone said so’
The writer explains why she has decided not to accept invitations to literary festivals that have placed a blanket ban on men named by the movement. → Read More
How the World Book Fair brought up a writer’s memories (and the desire for Toni Morrison’s books)
As a writer looks back to 2006, a photo tour of the World Book Fair 2019 in Delhi shows us what the latest version looks like. → Read More
Neelesh Misra’s universe of rural imagination does not travel well from radio to a book
They were wonderful to listen to, but the stories written by Misra’s ‘mandali’ lose their charm on the page and in translation. → Read More
Being young and very rich in urban Pakistan can be heartbreaking too, shows this debut novel
More than individual lives, it’s Lahore and its urbane society that star in Nadia Akbar’s ‘Goodbye Freddie Mercury’. → Read More
There’s much more to Reham Khan’s memoir than Imran Khan’s scandals
But the writer is a little too intent on destroying her famous ex-husband. → Read More
Writer’s choice: Ngugi wa Thiong’o recommends seven novels from Africa that you must read
When you need to look beyond Chinua Achebe and Naguib Mahfouz. → Read More
Review: ‘Eleven Ways To Love’ looks at love in different ways that widen the frame of reference
Eleven personal stories of love in different forms, beginnings and endings. → Read More
Can the new college graduate be T-shaped? This is not a facetious question
Are we seeing the birth of the ‘artscience’ graduate, with both depth and breadth in education? → Read More
Chandrahas Choudhury’s second novel ‘Clouds’ might have been better off as two books instead of one
It is a narrative of ideas, but possibly there are too many of them. → Read More
Five wordless books that tell their stories with pictures and imagination alone
Sometimes, words are redundant to a book. → Read More
Nothing actually happens in Elif Batuman’s campus novel ‘The Idiot’, which is why you love it
This could be the definitive Harvard University novel of the near past. → Read More
These are not your aunt’s Mills and Boons. They’re funny and feisty. And they aren’t romances
The Modern’s Girl’s Guide is a series of books with which Mills & Boons is going beyond its romance formula. → Read More
Meet the writer who made erotica and murder mate with art in a smash-hit series (and is funny, too)
Why writing sex scenes is not very different from writing murder scenes. → Read More
June 25: Even if you forget the Emergency of 1975, these seven books will remind you
Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency on this day 42 years ago. → Read More
Ten fabulously illustrated books for young readers that adults will enjoy just as much
Illustrator and graphic artist Priya Kuriyan picks her favourites. → Read More
‘A Suitable Girl’ is coming. What was it like to read Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’ 24 years ago?
Not only will the sequel be published soon, but a BBC series is also on its way. → Read More
Pro tips from millennial writers on how to write despite the seduction of social media
It’s a pitched battle between procrastination and productivity. → Read More
Anuja Chauhan’s new romance will raise heartbeats for more than one reason (there’s a war thrown in)
Intrepid pilot rescues alluring peacenik. Love is inevitable. → Read More