A little more than two years ago, the novelist and critic Rumaan Alam landed a job as the editor of special projects at The New York Times Book Review. It was a dream job — of course it was — and he ...

Alam Ara was described as a 'swashbuckling tale of warring queens, palace intrigue, jealously and romance' Earlier this month, a group of archivists in the western Indian city of Mumbai recovered what ...