Writer Sudhir Kakar says good memoirs should be written with fearless introspection. In her new book, well-known economist Padma Desai does just that. A few pages into “Breaking Out: An Indian Woman’s American Journey,” what grips the reader is the courage that led a sheltered young woman from a small Indian town to Harvard and Columbia universities and, against many odds, scale the heights of her profession.

A scriptwriter living with his girlfriend in Mumbai is put on the spot when the disapproving parents turn up. A doomed call centre worker lives in a cloud of numbing drug addiction financed by his high salary. These are just a few of the lives chronicled by author Palash Krishna Mehrotra in his non-fictional account of the changes that have swept over India over the last three decades, specifically how the lives of its youth have changed.

It’s most unusual to see geography as primarily a construct of the human imagination, but that is precisely what the scholar of Hinduism Diana Eck attempts in her massive new book, “India.

South CarolinaGov. Nikki Haley has been the talk of the nation over the last week, making itto the cover of USA Today, being featured in the New York Times and severalother major print outlets and television programs. All this attention was theresult of a memoir she released April 3, and the book tour she was on the wholeweek promoting “Can’t Is Not an Option.

Music, calligraphy, conversations and poetry merge in Vikram Seth's new anthology of poetry, "The Rivered Earth", an eclectic journey into the heart of rhythmic lyricism that the writer of "The Golden Gate" - a novel in verse - is known for.

Salman Rushdie will return to India this week to speak at a conference, under two months after death threats forced the Booker Prize-winning author to pull out of Asia's biggest literary festival, the event organiser said on Tuesday.

Hira Mandi, the traditional red light quarter of Lahore, lives in the popular mindscape through its stories of longing, loss and 'mujras' after the Pakistan government clamped down on prostitution in the 1970s, says noted French writer Claudine Le Tourneur d'lson.