The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi’s first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young Pakistani growing up in 1970s Britain. Karim lives with his mum and dad in a suburb of South London and dreams of making his escape [...]
Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born into a high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Professor – a man who [...]
Nina is a thirty-year-old English lecturer in New Delhi, living with her widowed mother and struggling to make ends meet. Ananda has recently emigrated to Halifax, Canada; having spent his twenties painstakingly building his career, he searches for something to complete his new life. When Ananda’s sister proposes an arranged marriage between the two, Nina [...]
By Rekha Bhattacharjee Nelson Mandela has released a new book on 12 October 2010 on his life in which he urges the world not to view him as a saint. He says he has suffered “weaknesses, errors and indiscretions”. “Conversations With Myself” brings together personal papers and hours of recordings with an unfinished autobiography to [...]
By Neena Badhwar Ambani brothers’ stories have always floated around amongst us Indians – that Mukesh Ambani has built for his residence a 64-story building in Mumbai with own carpark, helipad, health and spa centre and that it cost more than 1 billion dollars. Pictures of his lavish house also float through emails. Then Tina [...]