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Mohanaswamy by Vasudhendra, translated by Rashmi Terdal HarperCollins, Rs 399

Book review: To be gay and sad in small-town India

The story Bed Bug is about his friend Shankar Gowda, a transsexual treated like dirt by the same heterosexual men.

5 Feb 2017 12:55 AM IST

A brush with shades of grey in the art market

A brush with shades of grey in the art market

Jay Malhotra comes a cropper with an investment scheme and finds himself out of a job.

1 Feb 2017 12:28 AM IST

Zuni Chopra (Photo: Avinash Gowariker)

Magical world all of its own

Zuni Chopra's fantasy fiction set in Kashmir is a dream that every child would like to see in the future.

1 Feb 2017 12:28 AM IST

A still from the movie Amrapali, a 1966 historical Hindi film, directed by Lekh Tandon, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt as leads.

Book review: A courtesan in search of truth, peace

The countless spies in her employment have informed Ambapali of the arrival of the Buddha.

29 Jan 2017 12:36 AM IST

An Unsuitable Boy by Karan Johar with Poonam Saxena Penguin, Rs 699

Book review: Dil se, the story of a South Bombay boy

Like any good film, the book can be divided into three parts the first section is about his growing up years.

29 Jan 2017 12:34 AM IST

Debutant author Aayush explores the dark side of the competitive school environment in a YA fiction.

Under the heat

Book is set in the fictional town of Woodsville, a school crammed with brilliant students and a prestigious reputation...

25 Jan 2017 12:28 AM IST

The language is lush to match the setting.

Historical narrative of love, intrigue and ambition

Book begins dramatically with a fire cloud raging through a marriage pavilion.

25 Jan 2017 12:27 AM IST

Scattered Souls by Shahnaz Bashir Fourth Estate, RS 399

Book review: A snapshot of Kashmir with a time and date stamp

What he shares most with such illustrious predecessors however is the way his stories feel authentic and historical.

22 Jan 2017 2:46 AM IST

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Writing women'... It's tricky and difficult

The book spans the struggles of three generations of Indian women with love, loss and erosion of culture.

20 Jan 2017 1:35 AM IST

Writeful reinvention

Pakistani author Sarvat Hasin takes the classic Little Women and sets it in the 1970s Pakistan, in her debut novel This...

18 Jan 2017 12:41 AM IST

Tales from the battleground

Aditya Iyengar's debut novel, The Thirteenth Day, explored the Kurukshetra War through the eyes of Yudhishthira, Karna...

18 Jan 2017 12:40 AM IST

Dvarca by Madhav Mathur FingerPrint! Rs 295

Book review: A world full of Nakuls, Vidurs and Narads

Dvarca's world is separated from our own only by a small stretch of the imagination.

15 Jan 2017 2:03 AM IST