Corruption did dominate the noisy electoral discourse in Uttarakhand. But it wasn't as much about 2G, CWG, Anna Hazare's Lokpal or chief minister BC Khanduri's Lokyaukta praised by anti-graft activists. Vinod Sharma writes. Terminal 3 | Dabs & Jabs | Page Turner
'I think all the writers are very sad that Salman Rushdie wasn't able to come," says Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam in the Jaipur Literature Festival. Sonakshi Sinha writes.
Simon Sebag Montefiore: On how he makes history and research ‘edible’ in his exhaustive book on Jerusalem.
This book is not a biography in the traditional sense of the word. It has the ambition of being an ‘interpretation’, a search for the philosophical unity behind Tagore, the man, the poet and the thinker, writes Soumitro Das.
SL Bhyrappa’s Parva, published in 1979, is probably the most successful attempt made to tell the story of the Mahabharata in the form of a novel. It is a book without gods or heroes; anthropology and psychology shape its events, writes Arvind Adiga.
