New Delhi: Pakistani author Musharraf Ali Farooqi's latest novel Between Clay and Dust opens inside the grimy walls of an akhara which clan leader and head pahalwan Ustad Ramzi protects with fierce pride. In another part of the unnamed city's shaded alleyways is the 'kotha' of courtesan Gohar Jan renowned for her art and courted by the rich and famous. The destiny of the two artistes lies intertwined with each...
11:45 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: Four men meet under the cover of anonymity at a pub perched on top of a hill at Jungfrau, in the Bernese Alps, accessible only by a malfunctioning cable car. They order their drinks (single malt, on the rocks, gin and tonic, vodka, neat and lager) and decide on not revealing their real identities. The story of the graphic novel Agent Vinod - The Jungfrau Encounter lurches forward...
11:37 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Road Signs of Our Times The Ugly American, it would seem, is being replaced by the Introspective American. Many forget that in 1958 too, the year Eugene Burdick and William Lederer wrote their bestselling novel that spoke of the brashness of the American abroad, the US was suffering a recession of the same order as it did in 2008 (Av -3.2per cent growth for 8 months). It was the biggest...
10:26 AM, Nov 06, 2011
In 2007, I had spent about 15 days touring the locked-out tea gardens in North Bengal. Some were locked out for more than three years. Workers and family members were dying of malnutrition and disease. There were people who resembled skeletons; there were children who had gone blind from the lack of vitamins and nutrients. And yet, I saw teens from these same households come to the rundown shacks and...
02:57 PM, Jul 22, 2011
"It was a dream of mine to have 'The Alchemist' as a graphic novel" - Paulo Coelho. Well, The Alchemist - A Graphic Novel is pretty much about Coelho's personal legend than anything else. One of the most inspiring and fascinating stories told in more than two decades, The Alchemist did not require such a version to say the least. The graphics are absolutely beautiful and technically everything is good...
02:03 PM, May 31, 2011
Namita Gokhale's pretty much holding up a mirror to Delhi's high-flying elite with her latest book, Priya in Incredible Indyaa. I read this through in one siting, a lazy Saturday afternoon, but must admit right at the outset to not having read Paro (the prequel, if you're going backwards). Paro is a character that pops up every so often in this book though " she seems to have been the...
01:23 PM, May 30, 2011
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04:04 PM, Jan 19, 2011
Somnath Chatterjee needs no introduction. His political trajectory Keeping the Faith: Memoirs of a Parliamentarian reveals what is wrong with the Indian Left. Here was a man who made a mark as a lawyer early in life but allowed himself to be wooed by the then fledgling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). He got elected to parliament, first as an independent with the party's backing, and went on to become...
12:13 PM, Dec 02, 2010
The action builds up real fast. Desperation, passion, fear... foreplay, rape, submission... and boom! The most dangerous man in South Asia, the leader of the Tehrik-e-Taliban in Pakistan is killed in a drone attack. All in the first 9 pages. Many wanted him dead. But who killed Baitullah Mehsud? It's explosive stuff. The subject couldn't be more relevant right now, the author's command on it indisputable. As the story unfolds,...
05:11 PM, Nov 23, 2010
It is rare, and now more so, to chance upon a book that stirs your soul. Gopal Gandhi’s Refuge, is an impassioned, detailed, powerful piece of literature: a story waiting to be read. Set in the tea estates of Sri Lanka, Refuge evokes the plight of the downtrodden Tamil labourers working on them. Their tribulations are laid out in stark contrast to the lives of their governors, the club-swinging, mansion-living,...
03:27 PM, Oct 01, 2010
“Hit backspace to delete what has been stereotyped” – the interesting phrase that appears on the nameplate of an alternative art studio that features in the book, more or less sums up the premise of Rimi B. Chatterjee’s novel
Black Light. For in this book the protagonist and its narrator are both victims of societal stereotypes in more ways than one. Satya Sadhan Sarkar, a-30-year-old journalist from Calcutta has slowly...
02:55 PM, Aug 31, 2010
Divya Dubey's collection of short stories deal with a world of contrasts. ...
04:08 PM, Jun 30, 2010
Body Talk strings together questions from 400 girls across India on their bodies, boys and beyond. ...
06:10 PM, Jun 18, 2010
If you can ignore the bad spellings and the grammar, this book is all things you've grown up with, the assortment of Indian parental attitudes included! ...
02:17 PM, Jun 14, 2010
If you can ignore the bad spellings and the grammar, this book is all things you've grown up with, the assortment of Indian parental attitudes included! ...
02:17 PM, Jun 14, 2010
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