Dalit poet Kalyani Thakur Charal’s poetry is her powerful call for affirmative action

Charal’s straightforwardness in ‘I Belong to Nowhere’ tells us that poetry doesn’t have to be elusive or seeped in metaphors to make a point.

Niyati Bhat

· Aug 20, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS’ is a celebration of the biggest boy band in the world

The ten-year anniversary memoir is at once an encyclopaedia for the uninitiated and an emotional roller coaster ride for longtime fans.

Niyati Bhat

· Jul 23, 2023 · 08:30 am

This collection of modern Tibetan essays offers heartfelt, heartbreaking accounts of survival, hope

‘The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays’ is the first anthology of essays by Tibetans-in-exile published in India, but it certainly should not be the last.

Niyati Bhat

· Jul 02, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘Some say my translations read like originals, and originals, like translations’: Aruna Chakravarti

An interview with translator turned critically-acclaimed author, Aruna Chakravarti.

Niyati Bhat

· Aug 21, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Kashmir’s stories are best told by Kashmiris themselves, shows this anthology of short fiction

Curated and translated by Neerja Mattoo, ‘The Greatest Kashmiri Stories Ever Told’ is a chronicle of transition and trauma.

Niyati Bhat

· Apr 02, 2022 · 08:30 am

Kashmiri Pandits and the exodus: Eight books that go to the heart of the pain and trauma

A memoir, an autobiographical novel and fiction written from lived experience.

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· Mar 26, 2022 · 08:30 am

The new biography of Agha Shahid Ali is a love letter to the poet but not a critical view of a life

Manan Kapoor’s ‘A Map of Longings’ builds greatly on what others have said and written about the poet from Kashmir.

Niyati Bhat

· Jun 26, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Meena Kandasamy’s documentary on Sri Lanka’s women Tamil warriors is now her latest book

With ‘The Orders Were To Rape You’, the writer takes the trauma of the participants towards posterity.

Niyati Bhat

· Apr 03, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Terrarium’: A debut poetry collection that is therapeutic, nuanced and bursting with wisdom

With her debut collection, Urvashi Bahuguna displays the skill and depth of a seasoned poet.

Niyati Bhat

· Apr 20, 2019 · 07:30 am

Akhil Katyal’s poetry observes, records, and churns present-day truths

‘How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross?’ is an overwhelming chronicle of our times in verse.

Niyati Bhat

· Apr 07, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘You have to be very humble’: How Neerja Mattoo translates from Kashmiri to English

The first in a series of interviews featuring women translating texts from and into different languages.

Niyati Bhat

· Oct 28, 2018 · 08:30 am

A novel about one woman’s life becomes a neat history of middle-class anxiety in India

In ‘Pilgrimage’, Ira Singh tells Monica aka Mona’s story backwards, and from three different perspectives.

Niyati Bhat

· Oct 20, 2018 · 08:30 am