The late Jyotindra Nath ('J N') Dixit belonged to the old guard of South Block bureaucrats who could chide their political masters without appearing to be discourteous. He
Writing on the Wall: Reflections on the North-East
by Sanjoy Hazarika
Penguin, 2008
Given the rooted-sounding title of this new work, it is odd to find such a
Next Door: Stories
by Jahanavi Barua
Penguin India, 2008
Ishwar Baral, the famous literary critic of Nepal, once wrote that a short story is a window from which the world
To those Indians especially conscious of their country's image abroad, the recent feting of Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire at the Golden Globes, followed by its ten
The mass exodus of Kashmir's Hindu Pandit community was one of the most significant movements of people to take place in Southasia during the 1990s, though one that
Tony D'Souza's second novel takes its deceptively simple title from the author's name for Indian Catholics who speak Konkani, and who live on the
To study a river, one needs to think like a river – meandering, playful and capable of diversity in form. However, the bureaucrats and engineers who are assigned the task of
Aravind Adiga will go down as having maintained India's winning streak in the international literary scene by bagging the 2008 Man Booker prize. The fact that he pipped
Marrying Anita
A Quest for Love in the New India
by Anita Jain
Penguin, 2008
Here is a tedious book about an Indian-American woman's experiences with love
In her earlier works, Nira Wickramasinghe, a history professor at the University of Colombo, explored diverse themes as ethnic politics, the role of civil society and the politics of clothing
Sadat Hasan Manto, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Suketu Mehta and Gregory Roberts are only some of the many writers who have written about Bombay. The city contains a multitude of
