Hari Menon

My midget-muzzled Madrasi submission to snouty Delhi: "You're bearable, even great fun. As long as I can cock my snook at you."

In the arts, in sport, in popular culture and lifestyle, there was a fair mix of the memorable and the unspeakable, with plenty in between. There were new ideas, trends and people to watch out for in years to come.

A tale of love, life and friendship at an elite engineering school. Yes, it's possible. It's even funny.

The jacket image screams, “children’s section!” but the book itself will delight young adults

Hard focus and breezy persistence can win any woman

Reads exactly as if a mildly amusing set of blog posts has been stretched way beyond their capacity to entertain

It will entertain you as it charts the many weirdnesses of urban India. But not often enough to recommend that you read this book instead of the author's blog

Nothing else skewers corporate India’s assorted sillinesses so accurately. Or so funnily.

Can’t quite pull off the trick of stripping small-town India’s facade of apparent mundaneness to find something more engaging.

A superficially clever work by a bright author with much better work in store.

This entertaining debut novel works not as a cricketing tale but as an entirely enjoyable romantic comedy

Chetan Bhagat's latest shows the first stirrings of maturity, but the gruel is thin enough

Why do corporate types assume the tedious details of selling confectionery or detergent are as deeply fascinating to readers as it is to them?