Santosh Desai

The value of Visvanathan’s essays lie in their playfully fresh insights

For much of the book, Tharoor seems to be taking his eloquence for a test drive, without taking us anywhere new.

India’s small towns have grown upwardly mobile—and the mobile has speeded them

When silence killed the economist star

Kesavan’s net pulls in topics like memory, cinema, politics, fixes them in a rational gaze, unafraid of common wisdom

Aamir, an entrepreneur, has reconciled the market with activism

A fascinating examination of what it means to be a man in modern India.

A little repetitive, and not always very pleasurable, but in the final analysis, a useful and significant book on the inner structures of the new middle class

A new way of using text and pictures that makes commentary akin to a strain of virus that explodes in each individual brain in a unique way