The multi-layered success of South Asian migrants to the Gulf is a worthy reminder in phobic times

But while migration has lifted scores out of poverty, it has also sharpened communal divides.

Aditi Bhaduri

· Jun 25, 2017 · 07:30 pm

The Man Booker International prize-winner is a brilliant, tragic story full of jokes

A stand-up comedian’s life unravels in full view of his audience.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Jun 24, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Oliver Sacks wrote about cool neuroscience. Bill Hayes writes about loving him (and New York)

This memoir offers an intimate perspective on the neuroscientist and on a dynamic metropolis.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jun 24, 2017 · 07:45 am

These two books reveal how Tamil enterprise and Bombay merchants helped build business in India

The history of commerce in India is surprisingly ancient.

Sarojesh Mukherjee

· Jun 23, 2017 · 08:30 am

What would happen if women suddenly had all the power? This novel offers uncomfortable answers

Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Power’ is both science-fiction and real (and the winner of the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction).

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jun 19, 2017 · 08:30 am

Indian Railways has long thrived in the popular imagination. Is this cultural story about to end?

The railways are about food, films, literature and culture, not just transport, argues a ‘biography’.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Jun 18, 2017 · 05:30 pm

What happens when age takes ability out of desire? Hanif Kureishi’s new novel tells us

Hanif Kureishi’s ‘The Nothing’ is a compelling riff on impotence, suspicion and defeat

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Jun 17, 2017 · 05:30 pm

When oppression confronts love, who’s the winner? This novel offers an answer

The acclaimed Malayalam novel ‘Barsa’ is available in an English translation 10 years later.

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 17, 2017 · 12:30 pm

This book tells us we often pay irrational prices for what we buy (and why we do it)

How to fix your overspending problem. Yes, you have one.

Sarojesh Mukherjee

· Jun 17, 2017 · 06:00 am

This novel shows a writer reclaiming herself from a violent, abusive husband (it’s not a memoir)

Or, how difficult it is to escape even though you know you must.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jun 12, 2017 · 08:30 am

Only an unnerving graphic novel could have captured the mind of a kidnapped hostage

Nothing much happens in Guy De Lisle’s ‘Hostage’, and still you cannot tear your eyes away.

Debkumar Mitra

· Jun 11, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Sadness is devastatingly beautiful in Anees Salim’s new novel (or is it his imagined life?)

A dying man teaches his son to walk alone so that he can hold the family together afterwards.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Jun 10, 2017 · 06:00 am