books

Book Review: Custody

The author reveals the many facets of human nature, where custody battles become a way of trumping one another in a divorce.

Book Review: Broken Republic

Expect an interesting amalgamation of experience, debate, passion, flashes of brilliant insight, and a fair amount of hyperbole.

Book Review: Murder in the Ashram

If you’re going to enjoy this novel, you must employ a rare degree of suspension of disbelief.

Scheherazade’s 1001 Arabian Nightmares

Once upon a time, in a book rife with lies, Princess Scheherazade spent one thousand and one nights in bed with Prince Shahriyar… speaking.

Good Indian Girls Don’t

A not-so-samajdar-beti decides to take a year off from academia, fly off to the city of her birth, and start working on her first novel.

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice?

Madhuri Banerjee, author of bestselling novel Losing My Virginity and Other Dumb Ideas spoke to us about her book, love, lust, and what losing one’s virginity might mean to people in India.

Book Review: Jimmy the Terrorist

Omair Ahmad paints a vivid picture through his carefully constructed, true-to-life characters in this socially and politically relevant novel.

Book Review: Down the Road

28 vignettes of campus life, covering the Amazing Technicolor Life that school and college are made out to be.

The Halo and the Horns

Arjun Rao, author of Third Best, in an exclusive interview about life as a student and teacher in Indian boarding schools.

Book Review: Susanna’s Seven Husbands

The mystery remains intact in Ruskin Bond’s original short story, and the suspense is held captive under a gravestone—or seven.

Book Review: The Fakir

The Fakir is a simple tale with an important social message in a world where material things define boundaries between human beings.