Review by Imran Ali Khan Amitav Ghosh’s new book, Gun Island (Penguin, Random House), has come to us three years since his last book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, where Ghosh contemplates the dangers of climate change, “At exactly the time when it has become clear that global warming is in every …
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Ann Morgan on Reading
Ann Morgan considered herself well read — until she discovered the "massive blindspot" on her bookshelf. Amid a multitude of English and American authors, there were very few books from beyond the English-speaking world. So she set an ambitious goal: to read one book from every country in the world over the course of a …
In Other Words: Jhumpa Lahiri
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri is a beautiful read that explores the relationship between a writer, language and the nature of the self. The book explores the writer's relationship with Italian, a language she had heard and was consumed by when she travelled to Italy as a grad student and her later engagement with …
Half of a Yellow Sun: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Imran Ali Khan It took me a while to get to this book but when I finally did it consumed me. It kept me up all night and haunted me well after I was done with it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun tells the story of two sisters and their …
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An Ideal Boy: Charts of India
Imran Ali Khan There are images and then there are words, or is it the other way around? I am never quite sure. But a good way to ‘instruct’ is to say it without spelling it out, and so it is with the Indian Charts published in India around the 1960s and later by Tara …
Noon: With no shadows — Aatish Taseer
Imran Ali Khan At 7am when your eyes are still adjusting unwillingly to the sun, and you have just stood in a queue to have your bags scanned and your person felt up at the Pune airport, to find the shutters of a bookshop open is almost as close to salvation as one would get. …
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