Gillian Wright

Rooted in a capacious subcontinental society of 80 years back, these novellas also levitate in their gleeful use of myth, magic and fantasy

There is humour in this collection, and humaneness. And there is hope.

A tender portrait, beautifully illustrated and only slightly marred by a little loose editing...

A passionate guide to wildlife preservation in India, charting its history and historymakers

Breezy, but with insights that make this travelogue a treasure

'Raag Darbari is not widely read in Delhi society and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who had heard of it or its author at the average dinner party...'

When spoken, a language is mainly practical. To transcend into art, it must be written, its words shaped into poems, stories, and plays. So can written Urdu, once the medium of Delhi's literary artists, still be found in the city?

The archaeologists have dug up the past—they could bury it too...