New Delhi, March 4 -- Feisal Alkazi reinvents himself as a crime writer in this fiction debut, where the theft of a priceless M.F. Husain painting is the key plot point. The story is set in the heart of south Delhi, in GK II, and the sleuth is the local Ms Marple, Ragini Malhotra, who solves the mysterious death of her neighbour assisted by an auto driver, a gay man, a private investigator and her sharp intuition.

One of Palestine's leading thinkers Raja Shehadeh joins writer Penny Johnson to rediscover the contours of his homeland. They trace Palestine's geography, from archaeological landmarks long demolished to the more recent urban neighbourhoods wiped out by the 1948 war.

Colonial Punjab is usually associated with male honour, a pl...