Orwell vs Huxley vs Zamyatin: Who would win a dystopian fiction contest?

Revisiting three ground-breaking novels in the genre. Which one’s closest to our world today?

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Yesterday · 05:30 am

Climate-change in these three novels is even more terrifying than in real life

Fiction-writers can do a better job of convincing us that cataclysms are coming.

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Apr 15, 2017 · 07:30 am

The Inspector O novels are one of the best ways to understand North Korea

The series digs deep into the shadowy world of crime and espionage in the land of the Great Leader.

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Mar 11, 2017 · 07:00 am

How to escape from North Korea and live to write the tale

Two books by two brave individuals who got away, though it was to lives that were by no means easy afterwards.

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Feb 18, 2017 · 09:45 am

The man who lived with his dead sister: what can fiction tell us about the facts?

In Kolkata, a middle-aged man was found living with the corpse of his sister, eerily echoing fiction. An essay on life, death and art.

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Jun 14, 2015 · 07:30 pm

Authors who don’t: being a recluse in the time of literary festivals

Can a writer retire? Is it possible not to be a performer in the age of litfests?

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Jan 11, 2015 · 05:45 am