The book is a beautiful compilation of finely-crafted essays by well-known writers from the Indian subcontinent. The essays range from why India does not have primacy in Asia to the aroma of food. They mostly have a strong, fresh content, often questioning the dominant paradigm. The language too is good, as the editor singularly points out. The editor’s note says, every work featured in the book is one of the best essays each writer has penned. And the only ...
As the title suggests, the book questions the role of the Indian media at a time when what you read and see in newspapers and magazines are not ‘genuine’, but planted stories — for a fee, of course. The contributors in this second volume include Dilip D’Souza, Lina Mathias, Meena Menon, Sevanti Ninan, Frederick Noronha, Meher Pestonji, Nilanjana S Roy, S Sowmya, Farzana Versey and Shivam Vij.