The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of majoritarian chauvinism.
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There's a lot here—dysfunctional Muslims, the magic of numbers, psychotic depression. But terrorism? No.
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The media would do well to heed political and world events than affaires d’amour
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Nayantara Sahgal’s biography of Nehru is uncritical, yet thought-provoking and fresh
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Intense cricketing rivalry can make for good matches. But India and Pakistan paint it over with politics.
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This fluent first novel set in trouble-torn Kashmir impresses with its mature prose, but in its one-sided imagining of recent history and political reality comes close to being agitprop
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A brilliant first novel on cricket in Lanka is quirky and profound. It also revives the metaphor of sport as life.
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A timely study of India’s foreign policy: exhaustive, empathetic yet critical of a lack of strategic vision
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A satire on the iniquities and inequalities of Pakistan empathises with its characters, but weakens at the end
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A tale of innocence, greed, guile and idealism told in awkward English rings vividly true. Bhagat’s novel will be read by lakhs; that’s his claim to serious consideration.
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