Vinod Mehta updates his memoir with more wicked and wonderful stories from his life as an editor

The Last War is a re-imagining of the great epic set in the Mumbai underworld. In the dead of night, a few hours before he and his brothers go to war against their cousins for control of the city’s largest crime empire, Jeet Kuru starts having doubts. But that old fox Kishenbhai will have none of it. Extracts from a new novel

The valedictory column from a grateful editor

Christopher Nolan’s Inception is a disturbing puzzle about the difference between dreams and reality. It is guaranteed to achieve cult status.

It’s not an insult. It’s something actively being studied by scientists and engineers.

Going by Google’s idea of what constitutes humour, global dominance will elude it for a while yet.

How come some of the world’s brightest minds are such no-gooders otherwise?

Without the flair of football individuality, this World Cup will only merit a yawn.

Sarat Chandra’s appeals were humane and logical. But sadly, not enough.

This is poetry by a mellow Pritish Nandy, a man who thinks he’s aged.

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…