WHAT. DID. I. JUST. READ.This felt like a ‘Master and Margarita’ set in the socio-political maelstrom of an Era that’s hurtling towards its rhythmic 2020. Only, you knew the fine curve lines of the Russian classic, it was a story within a story, but you…

Shehan Karunatilaka (SK) brings a Kurt Vonnegut for a Show and Tell to the Booker’s AMA, writes children’s books – well sleeptime books for toddlers with big, colourful pictures and trots up the stage to pick up the Booker with glistening black nail paint. Long…

//The lockdown in India simmers and coils and flattens itself on my verandah – every afternoon, bristling with its scales of heat and the rain clouds teasing and retreating, full of sharp malice. I haven’t sat in a cafe and looked out of the window…

The Booker 2020 is almost here and this was my review of last year’s co-winner, Testaments (that I absolutely loved) – this will be one of the most important movements about Reproductive Freedom. Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, the Berlin Wall still encircling…

50 is the new 30! – we tell our friends when their wives/ husbands throw them a grand surprise party, we make lame jokes, we suspend retirement plans, we tease them about when the next date is, we tell them the salt and pepper looks…

‘Everyone who can read should read this book’- says Maya Angelou, on the ebbing, porously pale cover of this book.The modest cover also has a rendition of a wolf – ‘La Loba’.It’s thick, it’s a 500 pages and sits unpretty, unornamented, amidst fellow book spines,…

People on a reader’s block, people trying to read a lot, this is a great place to start and hone your speed. Here’s a review that I wrote for a reading group. Okay so 1696 pages of Naples is in my head and I can’t…