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Divya Guha

How do you write about your own ‘madness and melancholia’ when you aren’t sure if it is behind you?

Even after writing ‘How to Travel Light: My Memories of Madness and Melancholia’ Shreevatsa Nevatia knows there is no forgetting.

Divya Guha
· Jan 14, 2018 · 03:30 pm
Keki Daruwalla’s novel of the Partition is the quietest work about an unquiet time

A big story is told through the fine print of personal relationships and the feelings of people living through difficult times.

Divya Guha
· Jan 09, 2016 · 04:30 pm
An inferno in the Chandni Chowk of Guwahati incinerates decades of cultural history

The blaze at New Market, near the banks of Brahmaputra, started on Diwali night and raged for two days. Will it ever be resurrected?

Divya Guha
· Nov 19, 2015 · 12:30 pm

‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ brings the Millennium series back to the standards of the first novel

Written using the material left behind by Stieg Larsson before he died, ‘Millennium 4’ is both gripping and unsettling.

Divya Guha
· Sep 26, 2015 · 02:30 pm