A 70-year-old impasse

Autumn of the Patriarch

Aruna Chakravarti chooses to mix fact and fiction in her work, bolstering the credibility of her fiction with actual poems and letters.

Far-off the race-track

Harlow took this blow way more than he his own expectations and suddenly went off-track, turning to alcohol- a practice which he once believed to be ‘disgusting’.

A cloistered world brought to life

Appropriately, Grant’s take on sanatorium life is a far cry from Mann’s The Magic Mountain or its romanticised ilk, and this makes for refreshingly original reading. Her characters are bored, hacking their lungs up, undergoing painful and debilitating procedures, and scared of dying.

The Song of Arjuna and the Hegemony of the Yadavas

McGrath’s book is a fascinating slim volume that everyone interested in the Mahabharata will benefit from.