Anita Desai

No one comprehends better then child­ren do…


Reviewed by: Meenakshi Mukherjee
Asoka Raina

The introductory chapter of this book starts with a comparison—no other intelligence organization has been subject­ed to such tumultous criticism as RAW in such a short span of its existence.


Reviewed by: R. Sreekumar
Sachchidananda Vatsyayyan ‘Ajneya’

Reading Islands in the Stream in translation almost thirty years after it was originally published in Hindi, it is difficult to visualize how it could have stirred up such controversy or earned so much disapproval.


Reviewed by: Purabi Banerjee
Jamila Verghese

Newly-married women being tor­tured to death for the sake of dowry has become such a common event these days that it has almost ceased to shock. And here, in the routine appearance of small in.


Reviewed by: Anamika