Sunday 12 April '09
An Indian son’s search for his Pakistani father and his Muslim legacySunday 11 January '09
Qurratulain Hyder’s jilted begum, eccentric spinsters and even a time machineSunday
14 December '08After 26/11, these Partition stories have an even more anguished resonance n kishwar desaiSunday
6 July '08From the turbulence of Partition, through the creation of Bangladesh to the cynicism of todaySaturday
31 May '08In the superbly sensitive portrayal of a homosexual relationship in Brokeback Mountain...Saturday
10 May '08The biggest shock I got at Shobhaa De’s book launch was not about her sympathy for Raj Thackeray, nor her somewhat insular Delhi-bashing...Sunday
4 May '08How Roberto Rossellini stirred up a storm in IndiaSunday
6 April '08A painfully honest memoir on Punjabi immigrantsWednesday
26 March '08While the stamp commemorating the gorgeous Madhubala comes not a day too soon, why is it that the government forgot another...Thursday
6 March '08It’s the chemistry, not the history, stupid! Jodhaa Akbar is not a historical film, it’s a romantic period film...Sunday
17 February '08Kamala Markandaya’s posthumously published novel brings alive a 1980s Bombay with its lust, greed and idealismWednesday
13 February '08In true Bollywood style Farah Khan gave birth to triplets this week and no doubt has already written the script around them.Sunday
20 January '08Manil Suri explores the obsession with the male child with a gentle but mathematical thoroughness and some luminous writingMonday
3 December '07The problem with biographies is that no one likes to write the truth. The even bigger problem is that no one can quite remember it.Sunday
16 September '07Chughtai’s take on Guru Dutt’s life is brilliantSunday
2 September '07A scholarly book explains how Partition’s repercussions still trouble India and PakistanSunday
29 July '07Tabish Khair’s novel ambitiously uses cinema to revisit the effects of Partition. But is it too choreographed?Monday
5 March '07The trouble began, when in keeping with her family traditions, Sunali had her nose pierced with a gold nose stud, in 2004, after she had just turned 15Sunday
18 February '07While parzania is in the news, this is a timely novel, digging deep into the role played by the so-called “secular” and unabashedly non-secular parties in instigating communal riots.
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