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Beautiful lies, quietly said with a straight face

India, Jan. 31 -- In Bangalore in 2017, TJS George pulled out an old black-and-white photograph of a Vietnamese woman on a motorcycle. "If you go to Vietnam, remember me to her. She was very important... Read More


Review: The Elsewhereans by Jeet Thayil

India, Jan. 31 -- In Bangalore in 2017, TJS George pulled out an old black-and-white photograph of a Vietnamese woman on a motorcycle. "If you go to Vietnam, remember me to her. She was very important... Read More


'The readership for literary fiction is small'

India, Jan. 17 -- 1This was supposed to be a book about flowers in the Himalayas, your home for the last 25 years. But Called by the Hills contains many portraits from your world in Ranikhet. How did ... Read More


Anuradha Roy: "he readership for literary fiction in English is small"

India, Jan. 16 -- This was originally supposed to be a book about flowers in the Himalayas, your home for the last 25 years. But Called by the Hills contains, well, mountains - it is many many portrai... Read More


HT reviewer Saudamini Jain picks her favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- I'm baffled by how such few people have read or even know about The House of Awadh: A Hidden Tragedy by journalists Aletta Andre and Abhimanyu Kumar. This astonishing book unravels o... Read More


Sophie Kinsella and the hammer blow of fate

India, Dec. 11 -- Sophie Kinsella, the best selling author of more than 30 romantic comedy novels selling more than 45 million copies worldwide died on Wednesday. She had been diagnosed with glioblast... Read More


Mahesh Rao: "It was really important to me that the book end on a note of hope"

India, Nov. 25 -- I read your new novel, Half Light, as a portrait of desire. It starts with this young, very physical, romance, which eventually becomes demanding and vicious. Pavan and Neville come ... Read More


Ben Markovitz: When you write, there's this tension between flow and editing

India, Nov. 11 -- The Rest of Our Lives opens with the narrator, Tom, revealing, "When our son was twelve years old, my wife had an affair..." You've said the opening line came to you before you start... Read More