Navtej Sarna

Navtej Sarna’s short story collection is here. As is Prajwal Parajuly’s. Will they usher in good times for short story writers in a...

The Quiet American throws light on Graham Greene's personal life and is a vivid demonstration of his affirmed anti-Americanism. An early...

Renewing one's acquaintance with Wodehouse is not unlike the timely pick-me-up administered by Jeeves to Bertie on the morning after the...

Eli Amir's novels examine issues of identity and the true meaning of exile. It is the best hour of the day in Jerusalem. The...

While some have all the time in the world to just put pen to paper, there are some authors who work all day and write at night. Judging...

50 Great Short Stories, edited by Milton Crane is a remarkable collection with a huge variety of settings, subjects and styles but...

It was by accident that Sir Neville Cardus started writing on cricket. He ended up becoming its most stylish chronicler and it's a...

Three books that give you the complete story behind D.H. Lawrence's notorious Lady Chatterley's Lover. Not the most felicitous of...

R amat Aviv is a leafy suburb of Tel Aviv, the understated terrain of the intellectuals, lawyers and professors, politicians and...

Three weeks to read two hundred some pages, but that’s the kind of book it is. The Good Soldier - A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford...

The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham has sold millions of copies in many formats- hardback, paperback, classic, even two movies. But...

Allenby Street in Tel Aviv is a busy place at lunch time. Amidst the roadside cafes, the pizzerias, the shop fronts full of mannequins in...

I reach once again for the 1925 collection of Hemingway’s stories In Our Time, which contains the short story that best encapsulates what...

I do not believe that I am qualified to write on Faiz Ahmed Faiz. But the memory of a long ago Moscow afternoon tempts me. As a young...

The sky is a splattered sunset orange. The sun, a blazing hoop of fire, balances itself on the taught line of the horizon and then sinks...

There are times when the mind hesitates to enter a substantial book, aware that it will not be able to do justice. I thought I had sent...

When they fought each other for the throne after my father’s death, guns were mounted on those minarets and cannonballs flew over...

Normally I only glance furtively at obituaries; one never knows what, or rather, whom one may find in those columns. But the other day,...

The night throws its canopy gently over the Great Pyramids at Giza, as if it were reluctant to smudge their sharp silhouettes. And as the...

As opposed to travelling, aimless, whimsical wandering has been the source of some literary masterpieces… I step out without purpose,...