Books
Ravages of insanity amid facade of sanity
If a novel is in the making for as long as 25 years, it had better be one hell of a novel.
‘Shaping of words, the first act of poetry’
The human world is styled in words. While nature provides the style, it is the poets who provide the words.
A tribal, a cop, Mao & a PM
Six years ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared Maoism to be India’s single biggest internal security challenge. But the effect would have been even more dramatic, and more true to reality, had he dispensed with the qualifier “internal”.
Imperfect tale of a perfectionist
There are two main reasons for writing a biography — either you love the subject or can’t comprehend what makes someone tick. Irrespective of where the author stands, this is how biographies often germinate.
Custom made for teenagers
After tasting success with three business books targeted at 20-45 year olds, author Subroto Bagchi, who is the chairman and co-founder of IT services firm MindTree Ltd, decided it was time to demystify the world of business for teenagers.
The Islamist axe effect
Caught between Islamist terrorism on one hand and “war on terror”, or Islamophobia, on the other, what do Muslims do? If you happen to possess the literary class of Pakistan’s Mohsin Hamid or our very own Tabish Khair, you know.
