Halfway through Noon, the sophomore novel by Aatish Taseer, I was almost tempted to call it a post-modern joke. Many questions were unanswered: is this the fiction equivalent of a mockumentary

1. The fact that I possess a womb should disqualify me from commenting on V S Naipaul’s latest broadside. A writer who believes that no woman is his equal as a writer, that women suffer from

As his travels around India made him more comfortable with the terrain, Fa-Hien’s accounts, written in the fourth century AD, move from the general to the particular. The focus shifts from the