In a world where the media often reproduces the propaganda of the powerful, art—including the art of the...
Sometimes my son asks in English: “Baba, what does duniya mean?” It means the world, beta, the world that...
To return to Patna is to find the challenging thought of death, like the tip of a knife, pressing against my...
It wasn't just about standing up for freedom of expression in India: maybe I was doing something more humble...
Uninspired, unoriginal, sans cogent argument, this is anything but a comprehensive history of Bollywood.
He was indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger. He never published a classic text nor did...
Fidelity to his interlocutors, and to their detail and circumstance, as much as the intelligence and...
Aslam has the courage to write against the shortcomings of his own religion. When has anyone of the VHP had...
The Partition was a tragedy, but the greater tragedy is that today the dream of a united India is the fantasy...
Displaced metaphors play out their genteel turmoil yet again, Jhumpa style
Jha's second novel shows he's still in tormented territory, and thriving
Iyer could not have known this when he finished his book but Mohammed Atta, the leader of the September 11...
The local TV images of the mass funeral had a ticker tape running below—"PM congratulates victorious Indian...
Chaudhuri's writings record subtle variations on a more settled routine. The technique works because it saves...
High on success and stardom, Rushdie's novel touches the low of banality
A new fashion statement in India writing using adrenaline instead of ink.
A novel knowledgeable about wealth, sentimental about poverty.
Amitava Kumar on his marriage to a Muslim, his 'conversion' and his first visit to Karachi
Stephen Alter takes a step across what's just a line on the map
An uneven, but often rewarding, saga of forgotten Indian diasporas