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Anjana Basu is a Kolkata-based author and columnist. Views expressed are personal
Indentured labour, the 1971 War and search for identity are woven in a mother-haunted novel
A school swaddled in sensuality, saffron and rectitude packs an ominous presentiment
A well-lit magnetic thespian and his lifelong influence over typecast and rounded others
Neon-lit, pulpy prose tracks the scapegrace Charlie in his myriad mishaps across Delhi
This one propels the accumulated anxieties of a city into a shape-shifting future vortex
A controlled, subtle tale of how a core of secrecy in a family secretes lasting sadness
A first-person biography tells of the career of a pioneer Indian editor, but avoids significance
Nur Jahan seduced, intrigued and ruled like few women did. This is a fine tribute, with breaks.
Half a century’s storms buffet lives in south Asia in this simply told, sweeping narrative
Liberal in approach, perorative in tone, Tharoor decries the loss of Hinduism’s ancient openness at the...
Marked by deeply-felt lyricism, this novel, set largely in the inter-war years in India and Bali, is a...
The Indian need for a king conflated the benevolent Hobbesian monarch with the need to overthrow British...
A sense of filial abandonment stalks and steers the life of the heroine and provides the framework for this...
Maitreya Buddha’s birth leads to a fantasy-laden dive into the world of Buddhist myth, populated by yakshas...
Exploring the experiences of single women in India, Sreemoyee Piu Kundu’s book lays bare the barriers,...
In this evocatively written tale of a girl growing up, concrete reality slips out of reach, yet is all the...
This dark atmospheric text about Francis Newton Xavier, poet and painter, bristles with the nature of the two...
Amid a young Indian’s notches on his American bedposts and flashes of life back in Bihar, Amitava Kumar...
The royal masque in Akbar’s glittering court at Fatehpur Sikri is occasion for Sealy’s exquisite...
This slim novel stews in the passionate juice of wronged love. The protagonist, symbolically wedded to deep...
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Adda Robusta
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