Nilanjana S Roy

Nilanjana S Roy: Lord of the rabbits

'Watership Down' remains one of the biggest bestsellers in the world

The Bookshelf in 2017

From novel by Arundhati Roy to Nanavati case, 2017 offers a range of eclectic reading

Nilanjana S Roy: Beautiful minds, flawed human minds

'The Undoing Project: The Friendship That Changed Our Minds' is an account of a truly remarkable partnership, set down in his trademark lucid and perceptive style

Nilanjana S Roy: Books of the Year

Some of the pleasure of a Books of the Year list is felt by the reader, but only some

Nilanjana S Roy: Afterwards

'You Will Not Have My Hate' is hard to read, because you are stepping into another person's love story and tragedy

Nilanjana S Roy: Unfree: What to expect next

This column will point out gently that democracy is not an app

Nilanjana S Roy: Brothers in arms

Brothers, Manju Kapur's sixth novel, is her most assured so far, a conventionally plotted but acutely well-imagined account of the Gaina family's rise from the village of Lalbanga near Ajmer to promin

Tagore's anti-nationalism

Nilanjana S Roy: Ents and Explorers

Nilanjana S Roy: Stranger Things

Nilanjana S Roy: Empire's outdated laws

An empire and a company ruling by force needed sedition to prop up its iniquitous regime. A free country doesn't

Nilanjana S Roy: Reading India in 1947

Nilanjana S Roy: The boy who grew up

Nilanjana S Roy: Diary of a W-grade writer

Nilanjana S Roy: After Herr

Nilanjana S Roy: Funny guys

There is no way of avoiding contamination in a rogue nation scoured by regular viral outbreaks of mob violence, uprisings, righteousness, aggressive nationalism, and plagues of illiberality

Nilanjana S Roy: A writer's conscience, and protests

The Salt Doll's story

It sets the tone for Vandana Mishra's lively memoir of her life as a theatre actress and a young girl growing up in a now-distant Mumbai

Nilanjana S Roy: Human acts

The Tiananmen massacre is better known than the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea, where hundreds of students were killed in May 1980 for protesting the imposition of martial law

Juggernaut's funky experiment

Juggernaut's mobile reading app could be a game-changer