Books
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How the politics of protest uses poetry as one of its strongest voices
Nabina Das
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Waiting to have a child, or not. This could be anyone’s story.
Anu Kumar
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What Durga Puja means to the middle-class Calcutta housing estate
Devapriya Roy
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Why writers from Pakistan are looking to publish in India
Arunima Mazumdar
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The new Ramayana for children is entirely sweet, and the sour is missing
Urmi Chanda-Vaz
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Why ‘Angaaray’ was banned (and what it could teach an Indian author about writing of women and sex)
Satyavrat KK
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Will this novel win the Man Booker Prize? Madeleine Thien’s story shows why memories outlive history
Anu Kumar
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Good news: John le Carré’s 'memoir' is a set of short stories. Bad news: they could be his last
Anvar Alikhan
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Why an investigative journalist felt compelled to 'out' Elena Ferrante (and what she can do now)
Carlo Pizzati
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The (minimum-spoiler) review of Chetan Bhagat’s 'One Indian Girl' in five steps
Devapriya Roy
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What Sun Tzu can teach us about how to attend a book launch
Krishna Udaysankar
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How Kasturba remembered her special moments with Mohandas
Neelima Dalmia Adhar
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How a thousand-year-old Sanskrit love poem has travelled the world
Anu Kumar
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Ann Patchett’s ‘Commonwealth’ is a dizzily unplotted novel that teaches you to live magnanimously
Devapriya Roy
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Why Sri Lankan-American writer Hasanthika Sirisena is an outsider and likes it that way
Smriti Daniel
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To be (born) or not to be (born)? This could have been the central question of 'Nutshell'
Rhema Mukti Baxter
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Aubrey Menen’s ‘Rama Retold’ tells us to laugh at the Ramayana. No wonder it’s still banned
Satyavrat KK
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International Translation Day: Why I read Tagore in translation (and why I translate)
Somrita Urni Ganguly
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Two arguments (and rebuttals) that suggest India is not a secular state
Nalini Rajan
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Satire: When you’re giving birth, but Mummyji is in charge
Madhuri Banerjee and Rohini Tiwari