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Dirty Rotten Murderers

Modern crime fiction seems to have caught up with the perversity of real-life violence. Gone are the days when the little grey cells were all that was important to a racy read

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18 February 12 | BY Kavitha Rao
The Invisibles

An extract from Katherine Boo’s book on life in Annawadi, a Mumbai slum where people negotiate the price of freedom

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11 February 12 | BY Katherine Boo
The Peaceable Kingdom

Ironically enough, Steven Pinker’s peace theory is super controversial

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4 February 12 | BY Shruti Ravindran
Think Difference

An engaging book by a Nobel laureate that could leave the discerning reader even more so

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4 February 12 | BY Aresh Shirali
Missing the Plot

Kunal Basu’s talent as a novelist lies well hidden in the complex maze he wanders through in this new book

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28 January 12 | BY Arshia Sattar
Don’t Say Goodbye Yet

Not after you made us wait 35 years. Not after this thrilling new collection of poems, subtle and intricate and so mature. Not just yet, Adil Jussawalla

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28 January 12 | BY Tabish Khair
Bombay in His Veins

Kiran Nagarkar was watching movies to put off writing, but ended up writing a novel set in Bollywood

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28 January 12 | BY Suhit Kelkar
The Poetry of the Unsettled

A protagonist of great sensitivity and disaffection earns debut novelist Teju Cole formidable comparisons

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21 January 12 | BY Shruti Ravindran
Rhythm and Blues

Jeet Thayil is a fine poet, and you see his talent in Narcopolis. But this is performance poetry masquerading as a novel

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14 January 12 | BY Rahul Pandita
A Mixed-Up Mills & Boon

Aastha Atray Banan’s attempt to bring in life after romance pops the glorious  mirage that M&B entitles us to

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14 January 12 | BY Annie Zaidi