Roddy Doyle unleashed
The Jaipur Literature Festival has been dubbed ‘the greatest show on earth’ by Tina Brown. For all those who missed it we bring you the session between Irish writer Roddy […]
Aakar Patel – Scheherazade in Bombay
The Symphony Orchestra of India opened to its eighth season in Bombay last week and I had tickets for the Thursday. I began attending a few years ago after deciding […]
Ibn-e-Safi – Shootout at the Rocks
Ibn-e-Safi was one of the great Urdu pulp fiction novelists. Detective Imran is his most famous creation and the bestselling Imran series are Urdu cult classics. Like Inspector Clouseau, Ali […]
Justine Hardy – The Hospital
Just beyond the curled razor wire of Srinagar’s main prison, lies The Government Hospital of Psychiatric Diseases. The gates to the brick-lined mental hospital were at one time as feared […]
Steven Rudolph – How to push your kids, without pushing them over the edge
3 Idiots has certainly caused quite a stir. There’s been the Chetan Bhagat war of course, but the controversy I hope that has lasting impact is the debate over our […]
Vithal Rajan – Holmes vs Holmes
We can’t get enough of Holmes. As a follow up to our extract from Holmes of the Raj, we asked author Vithal Rajan how true he thought the new Sherlock […]
Vithal Rajan – Kim and Kim Again
With the new Sherlock Holmes movie hitting theatres we thought of giving you a sneak preview of our new title Holmes of the Raj, a brilliantly narrated collection of Sherlock […]
