Nilanjana S Roy

Why Indians are bad at sex-writing

Play that funky malware, live!

The Sign of Three

The Mitrokhin Revelations

Two Lives, remembered

Find your home on the Net

The great literary paranoia

The dilemma of a successful writer

Vandana Singh's brave new SF world

A tale of obsession

Shalimar, George and Sherlock Holmes

The outsider's illegitimate son

Ceylon between the covers

Argumentative Amartya

The worst book in the world

Books do furnish a city

Potter and the half-baked plot

The trouble with Harry Potter

It's hard to look back now and remember the exact quality of the excitement that the first Harry Potter book generated, the astonishment and delight with which we read about a boy wizard discovering Quidditch and battling Voldemort at Hogwarts.

The trouble with Harry Potter

It's hard to look back now and remember the exact quality of the excitement that the first Harry Potter book generated, the astonishment and delight with which we read about a boy wizard discovering Quidditch and battling Voldemort at Hogwarts.

The authorised version, sort of