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Look Out, Narendran!
Subha
A madman is dead set on blowing up the Taj Mahal, and there’s only one pair of detectives who can stop him. Tamil Pulp Fiction at its best.
Love Jihad
Aman Sethi
‘He said Love Jihad, or the practice of Muslims seducing Hindu girls with the aim of converting them to Islam, was an existential threat to India.’
Breach Candy
Samanth Subramanian
‘There are clubs like the Breach Candy Club all over the Indian subcontinent: relics of the Raj, institutions that were set up as bolt-holes for the British, where they could retreat to row or swim or play cricket or race horses.’
Vinod Kumar Shukla: Two Poems
Vinod Kumar Shukla
‘The truth is, though no one says it, / They’re all worried about their children.’
The Afterlife of Trees and Their Lovers
Sumana Roy
‘It is difficult to imagine a history of trees / without man in it. Man as tree, Tree as tale.’
Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag
‘That single moment’s intensity hasn’t been matched in my life before or since. A woman who I didn’t know has chosen to accept me, in body and mind.’
The Fixer
Snigdha Poonam
‘In Indian media and advertising, young people are mainly being projected as vessels of breathless aspiration.’
