India’s freedom came with the price of partition. While Punjab and Bengal were dissected to carve out a new country, Sindh was given intact to Pakistan.

One might be ill advised to judge a book by its cover, but Urmila Pawar’s collection of short stories could not have come with a more descriptive title.

Mad Girls’ Love Song is one of those books that will hook you with its enticing blurb — literary history, detective story, romance, post-colonial fable.

What precisely occurred in India in 1857? Did the country experience a “sepoy mutiny”, a “war of independence”, a revolt or an uprising? This and related questions continue to be posed by historians regarding the violent insurrection in India in the years 1857-58.

One of my favourite books when I was young was called Songberd’s Grove. Written in 1957, Anne Barrett’s book is about a bespectacled 12-year-old boy called Martin who manages to bring a fun bunch of c

Farrukh Dhondy returns with a new book, Prophet of Love, and weaves a thrilling tale of a Godman (who bears more than a passing resemblance to Osho Rajneesh), his intriguing past and a journalist in search of the truth. In an interview with Rohini Nair, the London-based writer talks about weaving a fictional narrative from fact and why he has no tolerance for fake gurus.

This book is a strange and happy mystery-within-a-mystery, where the actual plot and story of vengeance and crime almost doesn’t matter.

When you count Genghis Khan, Tamerlane — or Timur Lang as this part of the world knows him — Babur and Akbar as your ancestors, there’s not much you can do to outshine them to ensure your place in his

Mumbai can be repulsive yet beguiling, inviting all to enter its porous skin and become an implant in the body,” writes Priya Sarukkai Chabria.

My nine-month old Labrador Theo is adorable with kids. Despite my general aversion to anyone under the age of 13, my dog has strangely developed a warm rapport with all the little runts in my colony.