Book Reviews

A Literary Viagra? By Manish Chand Indian-American novelist Abha Dawesar’s new novel “That Summer in Paris” is a passionate meditation on the subversive and anarchic nature of desire and sexuality …

  India Then and Now Text: Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Vir Sanghvi Photo research and editing: Pramod Kapoor Publisher: Lustre Press / Roli Books Pages: 276 • Price: Rs.2975/- By Manish …

Deal of The Century? Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States NITED and the Global Order India Research Press Price: Rs 395 Raja Mohan has established himself as a sound analyst …

The Argumentative Indian Text: Amartya Sen Publisher: Gardners Books The Argumentative Indian is no not an exotic creature or an invention of Amartya Sen; turn left, right or centre – …

Song of Mumbai “In many ways, Sacred Games is probably the first Indian novel of the street, with an exuberant cacophony of street voices and a mélange of free-flowing, hybrid …

My Mother’s Lovers is the story of Alex who reminisces about his glamorous multi-faceted mother and the adventurous life she lived in Africa. Kathleen, a tall white woman, a woman …

The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy Mc Carthy’s new masterpiece is a road trip, albeit a scary and nightmarish one, by a father and his young son as they trudge …

House of Meetings Martin Amis’s new novella is an audacious attempt to compress the past 60 years of Russian history with all its hidden squalor and unspoken dread through the …

Christmas Reading The End Of Innocence Goodbye, Innocence? Moni Mohsin’s debut novel “The End of Innocence,” set in Lahore in 1971 – the defining year that saw a brutal civil …

Goodbye, Innocence? Moni Mohsin’s debut novel “The End of Innocence,” set in Lahore in 1971 – the defining year that saw a brutal civil war culminating in the division of …