Rana Dasgupta - Comfortably Numb

Comfortably Numb

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Book review: Capital by Rana Dasgupta

Capital by Rana Dasgupta The book pushes the reader directly into the life of a typical Delhi elite on his turf: huge farmhouse, ornate tiling, Italian marble work, chlorinated pool. Massage rooms, a post-massage chill-out room. A teppenyaki restaurant. Everything so pristine that another farmhouse down the road (same owner, of course) is used for…

Feature: Jaipur Lit Fest Sidelights

Jaipur Literature Festival: Can you repeat the answer, please? One quick question. Who was the rock star of the LitFest? ‘Twas Vikram Seth. Behaving like a distracted, sometimes dithering Oxford don, he launched on chatty monologues, read poetry in truly divine fashion, had the audience at ‘hello.’ Then he took one look at the snaking…