That's What Friends Are For

It is one of those happy miracles in the publishing world. Gail Honeyman was discovered through a writing compe...

No Country For Ghettos

The horrors of racism just never cease. A few days ago, a 22-year-old black man was shot to death in his own backyard, when cops supposedly mistook his cell phone for a gun...

Jay-walking In London

Khurrum Rahman’s excellent debut novel, East Of HounslowRead More

Trouble In Paradise

Celeste Ng’s award-winning debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, was set in the Seventies, and explored issues of race and alienation of the &lsquo...

Soha Ali Khan's debut book ‘The Perils of Being Moderately Famous’

For the first time in Mumbai yesterday, Sharmila Tagore, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Saba Ali Khan and Kunal Kemmu came together to unveil the debut book...

Arundhati Roy: Novelist With A Sting

Since the publication of her best-selling debut novel, Arundhati Roy has written often, using her pen as a weapon. But there is a reason why she is far more formidable as a...

Kaleidoscope - From A Child’s Heart

It has been observed that more often than not books for or about kids have a male protagonist.  Two recent books buck that trend and have girls leading-- and very inte...

Bring On The Girls

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was a publishing sensation and made legit the dysfunctional ‘girl’.

Paula Hawkins’s debut novel, The Girl On The T...

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt launches debut novel at World Book Fair

Acclaimed Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt says his debut novel ‘All That Could Have Been’, which is based on the screenplay of his forthcoming film ‘Hama...