Books
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What can we expect from a novel by a former newspaper editor about the murder of the CEO?
Aditya Sinha
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Why India cannot win wars against its neighbours (and why that doesn’t even matter)
Pravin Sawhney Ghazala Wahab
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What happens in cashless societies? Five answers from science fiction
Arnab Chakraborty
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Ten literary trends we’re staring at in India in 2017
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
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The books that mattered to India’s independent publishers in 2016
Shashank Bhargava
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What this editor of books read outside her work in 2016 says a lot about why (and how) we read
Sudeshna Shome Ghosh
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Why ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ is the one novel that (presciently) sums up the state of the world today
Satyavrat KK
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This book links hate-filled tweets to right-wing political strategy and deep planning
Arunava Sinha
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What would happen if the classic ‘Little Women’ were set in modern-day Pakistan?
Sarvat Hasin
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Why we will not bring you a Best Books of the Year list in 2016 (and, possibly, ever again)
Arunava Sinha
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Six customised cocktails for the litfest season
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
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The QWERTY clatter from the street-typists of India has not yet been drowned by digital documents
Chirodeep Chaudhuri
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Seven delicious graphic memoirs to end the year with (and wipe out the bad memories of 2016)
Devapriya Roy
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Immigrant fiction about Indians moves to Australia, and about time, too
Anu Kumar
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Once a diplomat embroiled in controversy, Devyani Khobragade is reinventing herself as a writer
Neha Bhatt
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Podcast: To preserve its history, India must start protecting its old books and manuscripts
Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian
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How demonetisation has hit book sales (and what might happen at next month’s book fairs)
Neha Bhatt
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Are paper books better for children or e-books? The answer is more complex than you think
Nicola Yuill, The Conversation
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A new Zadie Smith, a new set of difficulties in reading, a new pleasure
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose
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When Rajasaurus and other dinosaurs roamed the land where Indians live now
Pranay Lal