India, May 19 -- Dear Reader, When I look at a literary shortlist, I want to read all the books on it. There's something about making up my own mind and deciding which book deserves the prize. I am ... Read More
India, May 12 -- Dear Reader, You know the thrill you get when you discover a great writer, when the writer echoes truths that you knew, so deep down that you didn't even know you knew them. You read... Read More
India, May 5 -- Dear Reader, Two writers I loved passed away recently. Both died of cancer, both were in their seventies, one on each side of the Atlantic. Paul Auster, novelist, translator and film... Read More
India, April 28 -- Dear Reader, We've read the story of Salman Rushdie living with death threats for decades, with the Damocles sword of a fatwa hanging over his head, as documented in the brilliantl... Read More
India, April 13 -- Dear Reader, On Monday evening, I attend an intriguing event on translation, at London's oldest bookstore, Hatchards. They are launching a translation book club, and this is the ve... Read More
India, April 6 -- Dear Reader, She was the girl with the American accent. That made her stand out in the backwaters of Calcutta, where we were batch mates at IIM Calcutta. Later, when we became frien... Read More
India, March 31 -- Dear Reader, I can't remember how I discovered Kahneman. This Israeli-American psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics definitely didn't figure in my high school economic... Read More
India, March 23 -- Dear Reader, Two of my favourite books this year are set in Chicago. The first is Wellness by Nathan Hill. It's the story of Elizabeth and Jack, which is set in Wicker Park, a Chi... Read More
India, March 16 -- Dear Reader, Mary Beard is everybody's favourite poster girl. A classics don from Cambridge, Beard is revered for rescuing Roman history from a dusty discipline, elevating it to a ... Read More
India, March 13 -- "My existence is a fluke, an outgrowth of a mass murder," says Brian Klaas. With that sensational declaration, the political scientist-associate professor at University College Lon... Read More