Siddhartha Deb | The Nation

Esther studied botany and biochemistry, and ended up serving Cokes to arms dealers in Delhi’s Hotel Shangri-La. She is a station holder, occupied and rootless. Welcome to India Shining.

In the Falling Snow suggests that Caryl Phillips's considerable talents have further calcified into a mannered style.

Elias Khoury and the literature of witness.

Two new books show how perceptions of India have been shaped and distorted by rhapsodic portrayals of its business elite.

Nearly twenty years ago, in a village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, a young woman called Roop Kanwar was burned to death at her husband's funeral pyre.