Ruchir Joshi’s Great Eastern Hotel (HarperCollins) is a good attempt at writing the Great Calcutta Novel in English. The ...

In the case of Ruchir Joshi’s Great Eastern Hotel, which arrives with a thud more than two decades after his The Last Jet Engine Laugh, the reward is worth the effort. What makes this ...

Joshi discusses his latest book, his approach to historical fiction, and whether 900 pages was an ambitious effort ...

Twenty years of work have gone into this novel, a book already being called a ‘humdinger’—and, thanks to its sheer heft, even a doorstop. But its weight is not just physical; it carries the ...

On page 450, exactly halfway through Great Eastern Hotel, Ruchir Joshi’s 900-page behemoth of a historical novel, I stopped reading the book to assess what I felt about it. Even at this point ...

In an era of one-swipe reads, where publishers insist on books no more than 60,000 words and online platforms will not consider articles over 600 words, Ruchir Joshi’s Great Eastern Hotel is an ...

focus of the well-loved tale in the taxi drivers' repertoire of the innocent stranger who asked where he could get a bed for the night to find himself conducted to the Great Eastern Hotel.