NOTES FROM THE HINTERLAND: STORIES AND ESSAYS  (English, Hardcover, Shashi Tharoor, Ruskin Bond, R. K. Narayan, D. B. G. Tilak, Rahi Masoom Reza, Shrilal Shukla, Madhuri Vijay, Abhimanyu Kumar, Snigdha Poonam, P. Sainath)

One of the meanings of the word ‘olio’ is ‘a miscellany’. The books in the Aleph Olio series contain a selection of the finest writing to be had on a variety of themes and present India in ways that it has seldom been seen before. The country’s small towns and villages have often inspired its finest writing and this is exemplified by the stories and true-life accounts in this book