

Sunday 23 November '08
Who needs women when there’s genetic engineering?Sunday 2 November '08
Getting to know Le Clezio is to get in touch with long musical sentencesSunday
21 September '08Shashi Deshpande’s austere, affecting, new novel delights with its many-layered richness of relationshipsSunday
31 August '08Manju Kapur travels to the 1970s Delhi and the loneliness of its displaced womenSunday
17 August '08Anne Enright’s stories dissect sadness, its quieter formsSunday
20 July '08Che in AustraliaSunday
15 June '08Cricket becomes a metaphor for post-9/11 USSunday
27 April '08Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.”Sunday
16 March '08Another reminder that Mumbai, with all its excesses, is best profiled with a medleySunday
2 March '08If only real life were as neat as Ann Patchett’s new novelSunday
6 January '08A debut novel tracks down two Calcuttas — separated by a century — and their demonsSunday
16 December '07‘Mister Pip’ has been one of the nicest literary surprises of 2007Sunday
18 November '07Kishwar Desai’s account of Nargis’s extraordinary career and life is warmly personal, but it never gets voyeuristicSunday
28 October '07You find Manto’s city here with its wild Jewish girls and deadbeatsSunday
21 October '07Fifty years after it was published, MT’s affecting tale about a crumbled house comes in an English translationSunday
7 October '07Finally the English version of a memoir that caused a furore in Kerala two years agoSunday
23 September '07Why Kapuscinski was so propheticSunday
9 September '07Manna Dey on how events led him away from an anti-colonial armed resistanceSunday
5 August '07Tamil writer Jayakanthan’s books humanise society’s margins