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Supporters of Imran Khan at a rally in Karachi on August 23, 2014. In Fallout, “The Project”, which Salman Masood claims was the Pakistan Army’s design to bring Khan to power, gains momentum in 2014, which is where the book begins.

Salman Masood’s Fallout throws readers into the thick of Pakistan’s political turmoil

The book recaps the country’s past decade with a focus on the civil-military power struggle as manifested through Imran Khan.

Soldiers from Pakistan and India perform the Lowering of the Flag Ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border on December 4, 2022.

Balance of power

Poles Apart explores civil-military relations in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, highlighting the importance of democracy and constitutional space.

The latest book in the Cormoran Strike series is about a sinister cult.

When Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott test your patience

The Running Grave, the latest detective novel of Robert Galbraith, aka J.K. Rowling, is not good enough to justify its girth.

What the protagonist discovers is that in order to change the system, she has to perpetuate the system—with the tool of the state, violence.

Aakar Patel’s political novel examines the nature of power

After Messiah is breezily paced but gets plodding when he gets into lengthy explanations.

Ushinor Majumdar

The BSF, the 1971 war, and the birth of Bangladesh

The author Ushinor Majumdar discusses his new book on the role of the Border Security Force in the Bangladesh liberation war.

Dr G., a fan of the Beatles, has his office decked up in the style of the 1960s.

Remembering to forget: Review of ‘Time Shelter’ by Georgi Gospodinov

The 2023 International Booker Prize winner is both a hilarious comedy and a sombre reflection on the treachery of memory.

Cover of Manjhi’s Mayhem

Sex, lies, and chicken curry

Racy but insightful, action-packed but convincing, this is a potboiler with a difference.

Cover of Dead End.

The advocate vanishes

This unputdownable true crime story reconstructs a 1980s’ political murder in Karnataka.

Cover of The Ink Black Heart.

Strikingly slow

J.K. Rowling’s latest novel starring Cormoran Strike is high on pyrotechnics and low on suspense.

A fisherman casts his net in Dal Lake at sunset in Srinagar on September 8.

A yatra to the silent Valley

Kashmiris now do not express political opinions, not even in private gatherings.

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