A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie’s novel ‘Fury’ earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence of
I didn’t know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.
If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.
With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new
Like every other self-respecting academic, I’m distrustful of self-help books.
I’m generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.
Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination of
Governance in India comes in the iron-clad armour of bureaucracy. Anyone in uniform considers it his or her right that we regard them as some
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