Books should stand alone, but it would be incomplete to review the irresistibly entitled Manila Noir, a collection of short stories...
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There is a famous story about how Plato once told a friend that if he truly wanted to understand Athenian...
If rats can be a delicacy in Hong Kong, why not in Bihar? Thanks to Amitava Kumar's book, one has...
If there's one defect I find in Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's massive novel, The Mirror Of Beauty, it's that it takes up too...
Zafar Anjum. The Singapore Decalogue: Episodes in the Life of a Foreign Talent. Singapore: Red Wheelbarrow Books, 2012. Pp. 176...
Kith and Kin I have been trying to take a crack at Sheila Kumar’s collection of short stories Kith and...
Kishalay Bhattacharjee’s Che in Paona Bazaar carries the mythic connotations of Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia. The same sense of embarking on an adventure...
“Let some people get rich first,” the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping proclaimed a generation ago, inaugurating a strange new phase...
This is not, alas, the greatest time to be an Indian: never has the potential future looked so bright, yet...
Self-help books sell more than their literary betters in ‘Rising Asia’, so it would be no wonder if the how-to...
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