Chetan Bhagat's critics though carp about his characters, his language (more Hinglish than English), the plots, and what have you....
Month: July 2013
Although China is now the world’s second-largest economy, few Chinese writers are read outside the country or inform the global...
India’s literary establishment is abuzz about the recently published novel “The Mirror of Beauty,” a 984-page fictional account about the...
In her latest book, On the Noodle Road, author Jen Lin-Liu chronicles a six-month journey along the historic Silk Road from eastern China, through...
A book with a title as brash as Crazy Rich Asians is just asking to be picked up and read. The ascent of...
Books should stand alone, but it would be incomplete to review the irresistibly entitled Manila Noir, a collection of short stories...
There is a famous story about how Plato once told a friend that if he truly wanted to understand Athenian...
Ayesha Jalal on Manto: What do you make of the resurgence of Manto’s popularity over the last year? I don’t...
Mirror of Beauty Shamsur Rahman Faruqi is said to be a formidable, forbidding figure. As a literary theorist and scholar...
Tahmima Anam Tahmima Anam is the author of the Bengal Trilogy, which chronicles three generations of the Haque family from...
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