Students of literature and the cult of help-books
There is nothing that can beat the advantage and the absolutely euphoric feeling of reading an original text. After all, if I we talk about ‘From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet’ by Vikram Seth, I get closer to what the writer really had in his mind if I read the original text and...
The Timeless Beastly Tales by Vikram Seth – A Review
I still remember that wet evening as I stood on the elegant staircase of CBT on Bahadurshah Zafar Marg and animatedly discussed the new book about to be released by Viking. The year was 1992 and I was talking to Urvashi Butalia, the known fiery writer and publisher and one of the owners of Kali...
