Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Superb video by the @frontline_india digital team. Please watch.

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@nilanjanaroy's Black River is a fantastically rewarding read. The writing is mellifluous and lyrical, a tad embellished, but well, what is the fun in reading staid prose. The novel is framed as a police procedural and readers of hardboiled crime fiction may find the 1/3

I read #TaniaJames’ #Loot a few days ago because of my own interest in the history of #TipuSultan’s reign and the fiction written around this great figure. The novel reimagines the construction and the journey of Tipu’s Tiger (the iconic automaton). While the first half set 1/3

Finally, got around to reading #SakinasKiss by @VivekShanbhag0. Straightforward in its plotting but devastatingly clinical in its parsing of the character of Venkataramana. Modernity and its jarring clash with gender, class and caste plays out in the middle-class, middling 1/2

I've been a fan of @DavidGrann since I read The Lost City of Z. His latest book, #TheWager, is also unputdownable and combines exacting historical research with mellifluent writing. Just the combination that I love! Superb book David Grann!