This account of Delhi’s meat industry is fact-filled and fascinating (but it may make you squirm)

‘Delhi’s Meatscapes’ is an informative and wide-ranging study of the Qureshi butchers and the trade, but also packed with annoying errors and poor writing.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Aug 11, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Manu Bhattathiri’s fictional town of Karuthupuzha returns. It’s still Malgudi for the 21st Century

First seen in the writer’s short stories and now back in a novel, the South Indian town continues to harbour eccentric characters.

Suneetha Balakrishnan

· Aug 11, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘The Billionaire Raj’: This insightful book investigates inequality and cronyism in India

Drawing on his years as a correspondent in Mumbai, journalist James Crabtree looks at the rise of India’s new class of self-made billionaires.

Devangshu Datta

· Aug 11, 2018 · 07:00 am

Book Review: Given the lack of controversy in ‘The Dhoni Touch’, it clearly has Dhoni’s touch

Despite not being an official biography, Bharat Sundaresan unravels the enigma that is Mahendra Singh Dhoni only to the extent the cricketer allows him to.

Jaideep Vaidya

· Aug 10, 2018 · 04:51 pm

‘The Birth of Kali’: Women from mythology reclaim their space in the stories men wrote about them

Anita Sivakumaran does a thorough demolition job in her fiction on the patriarchal images of mythological female characters.

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Aug 06, 2018 · 08:30 am

This book of gut-wrenching short stories is a testament to how military conflict has bled Kashmir

In 'The Night of Broken Glass', Kashmiri writer Feroz Rather tells us how the military conflict in Kashmir depletes everyone touched by it.

Akhil Katyal

· Aug 04, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Latitudes of Longing’: An exceptional debut novel that shows nothing (and nobody) is set in stone

Shubhangi Swarup’s ambitious novel, made up of four intersecting stories, succeeds particularly in showing how people are transformed by each other.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 04, 2018 · 08:30 am

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel is a minimalist study of revenge (and features Agastya Sen’s father)

A tightly woven story goes much deeper and wider than the slimness of the novel would suggest.

Trisha Gupta

· Aug 04, 2018 · 07:00 am

Rainy day reads: These sharply authentic thrillers place women firmly at their core

‘Let me Lie’ and ‘The Wife’ take on different themes but are united in capturing particular social moments.

Neha Bhatt

· Jul 29, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Is yours a ‘bullshit job’? This book will tell you if it is, as it points to a paradox of capitalism

David Graeber book identifies the kind of work that adds no value in today’s economy, but millions are engaged in doing nevertheless.

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

· Jul 29, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Can there be a definitive history of magic in India? This book tells the mesmerising story

John Zubrzycki’s book traces the journey of what we know as magic from the Harappan Civilisation to the current age.

Vipin Krishna

· Jul 29, 2018 · 08:30 am

Being young and very rich in urban Pakistan can be heartbreaking too, shows this debut novel

More than individual lives, it’s Lahore and its urbane society that star in Nadia Akbar’s ‘Goodbye Freddie Mercury’.

Devapriya Roy

· Jul 29, 2018 · 07:00 am