Keshava Guha

6 days ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Keshava Guha |Tabish Khair |C.S. Venkiteswaran |Vaishna Roy

It is difficult to resist a novel that Amitav Ghosh, in one of the three heavyweight endorsements paratexting it, attributes to “an astute and insightful observer of contemporary India”. This comment mostly holds true, although I would have preferred to say “Delhi” instead of “India”. Keshava Guha’s The Tiger’s Share is a consciously “Delhi” novel, and for me that is a point in its favour. Another thing in its favour is the novel’s engagement with family property.