Tagore and the superfluous: an excerpt from the Introduction to Clearing a space
In the waiting-room of history: on Provincializing Europe
Notes on the novel after globalisation
Arun Kolatkar and the tradition of loitering
Learning to write: VS Naipaul, vernacular artist
A feather! A very feather upon the face!: on Kipling
Women in love as post-human essay
Beyond confidence: Rushdie and the creation myth of Indian English writing
The check list: excerpt from the introduction to The origins of dislike
The piazza and the car park
On the Gita: Krishna as poetic language
The alien face of cosmopolitanism: an Indian reading of Cynthia Ozick on the Woolfs
Ray and Ghatak and other filmmaking pairs: the structure of Asian modernity
Nissim Ezekiel: poet of a minor literature
Storytelling and forgetfulness
The Decline of Bengali food
A strange likeness: Walter Benjamin
The real meaning of Rhodes must fall
Where does the time go?: on Joni Mitchell
Two floors above the butcher
