Radhika Oberoi

The secondary sex

Aaliya Waziri's book is a brave and articulate attempt at dismantling patriarchy

The roots of male dominance

Angela Saini's book is a thought-provoking exploration of patriarchy, its historical roots, and its impact on society, offering glimpses of resistance and the search for alternatives

The fabulous imprecision of history

Salman Rushdie's style of retelling history as fable is evident in his latest novel, Victory City, as he creates a narrative that mixes fact and myth to create a captivating story

Ominous omissions

Condemned poets lie scattered across eras and geographies with unique political exigencies and religious compulsions

The great railway chronicler

'The Great Railway Bazaar' is inflected with literary ideas and references to fictional worlds

Is home a free country?

Governments curtail our freedom by making new laws and databases and devising surveillance technologies

Fragments of exhilaration

Fragments Against My Ruin has tableaux of fortuitous encounters, new friendships, and the early stirrings of political ideologies that will influence his work as a writer

Midnight's septuagenarians

Saleem, nearly thirty-one-years old, puts on display the many personal artefacts and feelings and notions and nicknames and omens that are his inheritance

The crumbling city

Book review of A Shadow of the Past: A Short Biography of Lucknow

Ode to an era

Book review of Enter Stage Right: The Alkazi / Padamsee Family Memoir

Inner landscapes in an unsettled universe

Book review of Intimations: Six Essays

Hands across the border

Suketu Mehta makes a passionate case for the immigrant's right to free movement