India, Dec. 7 -- Dear Reader, I've become obsessed with doors. You see them everywhere in Morocco - ten feet tall, set into the high, windowless walls of the ancient Medina. Burnished oak studded wit... Read More
India, Nov. 30 -- Dear Reader, "The thing about literary masterclasses is you have to give value - real value," says Alexandra Pringle, former Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury, in the authoritative tone... Read More
India, Nov. 23 -- Dear Reader, My nonfiction list this year is wildly skewed-half tech dystopia, half mountain mysticism, with a multitude of memoirists weaving through the middle. It feels chaotic, ... Read More
India, Nov. 2 -- Dear Reader, I'm on the flight to Delhi. You know that space. Neither here nor there, suspended in the air, and the only thing tethering you to any kind of reality is the book in you... Read More
India, Oct. 26 -- It is lunchtime in Baku. We are sitting outdoors at a long table in the shadow of the Walled City's sandstone walls, sipping a tall glass of blood-red pomegranate juice. It feels bo... Read More
India, Oct. 19 -- Dear Reader, When I think of Diwali, I think of the scent of flowers, of lilies and marigolds. Of my mother's voice calling us to gather for the puja. Of the brass plate of flowers ... Read More
India, Oct. 12 -- Dear Reader, I grew up in a family where eating with one's hands was considered uncouth. My Oxbridge-educated grandfathers were in awe of all things Western, from the opera to the a... Read More
India, Sept. 21 -- Dear Reader, It's the season for tell-alls. First, the haunting mother-daughter story in Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy. And now comes All The Way to the River, a memoi... Read More
India, Sept. 14 -- Dear Reader, I do not want to write about Mother Mary Comes to Me. And yet this is the book everyone is talking about. Since the book released on August 28, there have been book e... Read More