Dileep Padgaonkar on the path well read

Has Biblio come of age? asks
Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Mani Shankar Aiyar reviews Ayesha Jalal’s latest book, The Struggle for Pakistan

Venkat Dhulipala decodes the idea of Pakistan in Creating a New Medina

Samar Halarnkar hails Salil Tripathi's book on the Bangladesh War

Jeremy Seabrook's Song of the Shirt on Bangladesh's "rags of humanity", who provide the world cheap clothes

A tour de force of reportage: Rohini Mohan's The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War

Michael Vurens van Es recommends Aditya Adhikari's The Bullet and the Ballot Box: The Story of Nepal's Maoist Revolution

Reema Abbasi and Madiha Aijaz's call to conscience in Historic Temples of Pakistan

Osman Samiuddin tracks the schizophrenia that blights Pakistan cricket in The Unquiet Ones

Harsh Sethi on Shashi Tharoor's Reflections on the Nation in Our Time

Darryl D'Monte reviews Jairam Ramesh's Green Signals

Michael Buckley's Meltdown in
Tibet on China's reckless destruction
of ecosystems

Bittu Sahgal appreciates Zafar Futehally's life and work in
The Song of the Magpie Robin

Valmik Thapar's latest book on
The Splendours of India's
Animal Kingdom

Camel crusader: Ilse
Köhler-Rollefson's Twenty Years Among India's Camel Nomads

Stephen Alter's Himalayan Journeys
in Search of the Sacred and Sublime

Mandakini Dubey recommends Priya Parmar's Vanessa and Her Sister

Sandip Roy is a masterhandler of secrets, says Akhil Katyal about his first novel Don't Let Him Know

Jayaprakash Sathyamurthy on why Tania James's The Tusk That Did The Damage needs to be read and re-read

Sudeep Paul on David Davidar's selection of Extraordinary Short Stories in A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces

Sharanya Manivannan reviews Ashok Srinivasan's The Hindu Literary Prize-winning book of stories Book of Common Signs