Tarun J. Tejpal

Tarun J. Tejpal is the founder-editor of Tehelka, well known for its investigative reporting; over the years, he has exposed various scams and malpractices in India.


Reviewed by: Shyamala A. Narayan
Jane Austen

In September, Harvard University Press published an edition of Jane Austen’s Emma with annotations by Bharat Tandon, a lecturer at the University of East Anglia in the UK.


Reviewed by: Pronoti Datta
Charles Dickens

The year gone by was the bicentenary of two Eminent Victorians—Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and Edward Lear (1812-1888).


Reviewed by: Kanak Seshadri
Mukul Kesavan

This issue of Civil Lines appeared a decade after the previous issue, and this review a year after that. If, as the editorial claims, the issue contains ‘work that has been written for ever’, the two delays matter little.


Reviewed by: G.J.V. Prasad
Sukanto Chaudhuri

It was said of Albert Camus’s Outsider that having read it, one cannot relate to the world again the same way as before.


Reviewed by: G.N. Devy
Ashokamitran

In this beguiling novel, Ashokamitran shares with us the experiences of two men in the summer of 1964, who live and work in the film industry in Madras.


Reviewed by: Susan Visvanathan