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.

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· 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.

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· Apr 03, 2021 · 12:30 pm

The exile: What Kashmiri Pandits have not been able to do in the 30 years since January 19, 1990

‘Three decades of having gone through the unimaginable’: A personal essay.

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· Jan 19, 2020 · 03:09 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.

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· 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.

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· 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.

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· 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.

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· Oct 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

(Almost) everything you wanted to know about Kashmiri Pandits but didn’t know whom to ask

Chandrakanta’s ‘The Saga Of Satisar’ is a monumental work on multiple lives within the community, across history and geographies.

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· Apr 29, 2018 · 07:00 am

This book gives the poets of Tibet who are fighting for freedom a voice to reach the world

As a collection of translated poetry from Tibet, ‘Burning the Sun’s Braids’ has no choice but to be political.

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· Feb 18, 2018 · 07:30 am

Tom Hanks has written a book of short stories. Can’t we just watch his films instead?

Tom Hanks’s ‘Uncommon Type’ is uncommonly boring and risk-free.

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· Nov 19, 2017 · 06:30 pm

John Green is back and, naturally, YA readers will find their hearts jumping again

Teenage detectives solve crimes while fighting mental illness and writing ‘Star Wars’ fan fiction.

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· Oct 15, 2017 · 03:30 pm

There’s a reason (think John Green meets Stephen King) this debut novel is all the rage in the West

In ‘My Absolute Darling’ Gabriel Tallent successfully combines the trauma of child abuse with teenage romance.

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· Oct 08, 2017 · 06:30 pm