From the 19th century to the present this is an extraordinarily revealing book of Indian writing. In the last few years the press has been obessed with the idea

In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully

Stories and excerpts of novels from India since the country attained its independence in 1947. The subjects range from religious strife, to the assault on the s

A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when maj

In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and c