Review

Aravind Adiga’s latest novel is the account of a day in the life of Sri Lankan Tamil, Danny, who is an illegal immigrant in Sydney read more

According to MJ Akbar’s new book, Jinnah was both overestimated and underestimated by Gandhi, Nehru, and Patel read more

Bottle of Lies drives home the chilling point that making and selling drugs that aren’t what their labels declare involves profoundly organized criminality read more

The top court had on January 20 dismissed the special leave petition (SLP) filed by Pawan Kumar Gupta, 25, claiming that he was a minor at the time of the crime on December 16, 2012, and that the Delhi High Court had ignored this fact while convicting... read more

Delving into the evolution of Indian English and tracing our peculiar fondness for the language read more

A keyboard slave on a world trip seeking a cure for chronic backache ends up gaining much more read more

This second compilation of dastangoi, a performative tradition revived by Mahmood Farooqui, includes one dastan from the Hamza cycle and nine very successful dastans including the Dastan-e-Chouboli and Dastan-e-Sedition read more

Sahitya Akademi Award Winner Vinod Kumar Shukla’s only collection of short fiction captures our reactions to the mundane read more

The nine case studies in this book range from the forests of the Western Ghats to the western Himalayas and take in forests and wetlands to look at the challenges facing conservation today read more

Doodles on Leadership by R Gopalakrishnan is an innovative contribution to Indian management literature read more

In Antigod’s Own Country, AV Sakthidharan uses the motif of Onam and the many myths surrounding it to sketch the cultural and spiritual roots of festivals, deities and faiths, and underline how Brahmanical traditions may have co-opted them read more

While deceptively simple, the companion novellas Bhaunri and Daura are rich in imagery and lyrical prose read more

Aneesh Pradhan’s book analyses music policy, the overseas performance network, and corporate patronage, among other critical matters, and goes beyond conventional writing on Hindustani classical music read more

The basic premise of 18 randomly arranged essays in this book is to reinforce the idea of the university as a crucible of academic freedom where researchers pool together their creative faculties to help society towards a greater common good. read more

Sunita Aron questions the ethics of forming coalitions, when arch enemies join hands only to be able to form governments, or declared ideologies are compromised to be able to win more seats read more