Winning the Man Booker prize is something that most authors dream of, although not generally with their first novel. Mirroring India’s rise as a global economy, the novel takes the form of a series of letters written late at night by Balram Halwai, the protagonist, to Wen Jiabao, the Premier of the State Council...
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Set in the early 1990’s, The Collaborator tells the tale of a boy growing up during the darkest times of the Kashmir conflict. Tired of oppression by the Indian army, and lured by the seeming heroism of the freedom fighters, the village’s young men flee, one by one, across the border into Pakistan. Left...
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Piers Moore Ede interviews Tishani Doshi about her new book. Q: You’re best known as a poet. How did the transition to writing novels come about? TD: I’m not sure when I got hold of this notion that I should write a novel. Poetry, for me, remains the central and primary instinct, but I...
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Oh there are so many, and they all look great, and some have pretty pictures, and they all seem to know what they’re talking about, so I really can’t decide, should I just go with the cheapest, or the most expensive, or the one printed on recycled paper, or the bestselling one, or should...
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Nutrionist and chef Gurpareet Bains is all over the review pages right now with his recipe book Indian Superfood. Packed with glowing endorsements from the likes of Dame Vivenne Westood and Sanjeev Bhaskar, to name a few, we had high hopes for this book. That someone should recognise the amazing nutritional diversity of Indian...
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Over twenty years of research has gone into the 50 Great Curries of India and it shows. A feast for the senses, this book explains how to add taste, aroma and colour to create that perfect curry. Dishes collected from all over India – from the classic Goa Lamb Vindaloo to the more exotic...
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Here at theindiaphile, we cannot get enough of these Love Travel Guides. A true India lover, Fiona Caulfield, has put together what she calls ‘handbooks for the luxury vagabond’. This is the kind of guidebook you might dream of: beautifully made, containing the very best locally culled information, hand drawn maps, sketches, planning calendars,...
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Described by Amit Chaudhuri as the best debut novel I’ve read for a long time, Anjali Joseph’s Saraswati Park is released today. It tells the tale of Mohan, a letter writer who sits outside the main post-office in Bombay, his wife Lakshmi, and their nephew Ashish, a sexually uncertain 19 year old who comes...
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