William Dalrymple grants Naipaul his eminence, but challenges his jaundiced notions of Indian history
Bin Laden to Borges, via a sleeping Buddha's dreams. But has Mishra overreached in it all?
The British Museum celebrates India at 60 in a show of Indian art patronised by Brits before the Raj
Naipaul's new book traverses old ground, his journey unto himself is but an ego trip, the sharp edge of his writing has turned bitter. Where's VS as we knew him?
A striking, courageous woman, she lent herself to being a symbol. In reality, she belied the promise.
The Nizam's legacy-reeling under the weight of its own grandeur, family squabbles, neglect and greed-springs to life again bit by bit
Patches of anti-colonial cliche apart, the opium trade and the entire cast under its thrall breathe life into the 1830s. Ghosh's well-crafted narrative pace intoxicates.
Pakistan's political hell wreaks... a literary spring. A comic noir typifies the new novel.
In this pocket of Kerala, local myth fuses Goddess Bhagavati and Mother Mary into family
The socio-cultural eddies and political winds that swirl around our greatest icon
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