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Day 2 The biggest perk of my job in Kathmandu so far has been a last-minute trip accompanying my boss to the 2014 Jaipur Literature

I devoured this in about three days when I had lots of other work I should have been doing. While the Gods Were Sleeping is

Pankaj Sekhsaria’s debut novel, The Last Wave: An Island Novel is fascinating for the way it depicts a part of India often ignored in literature:

The best, and first book that anyone should read, on Nepal. I wish I had read this as soon as I had arrived in Kathmandu,

Joe Simpson’s The Water People is the story of childhood friends, Chris and Jimmy, who set off into the Indian Himalaya partly for the adventure

This was the perfect book to accompany me on the Poon Hill trek in the Annapurna region that I did a couple of weeks ago.

It was Ramachandra Guha’s endorsement on the front of the Indian version of this book that drew my attention to it: “The best book about

Day 1 The 6th annual Jaipur Literature Festival got off to a cracking start today, and I left this evening feeling very inspired, as I

On this unpleasantly overcast day I made my way out to the 33rd annual Kolkata Book Fair. And remembered why the Delhi metro has been

I had seen this book for sale in Canberra’s Academic Remainders Bookshop while I was waiting to hear whether I’d got the job I wanted