In Bengaluru, reading groups (some of them underground) are using books to live outside the machine

Strangers are joining hands for causes after being brought together by an interest in books.

Satyavrat KK

· Oct 14, 2017 · 10:30 am

‘It’s not just Church Street’: In Bengaluru, these three Kannada bookshops have their own identities

Because Kannada writers are stars in their own right, with a wide readership.

Satyavrat KK

· Sep 23, 2017 · 12:30 pm

What three second-hand bookshops on the same street say about Bengaluru’s reading culture

Blossoms, Bookworm, Select. All within a stone’s throw of one another. How does the city nurture them?

Satyavrat KK

· Sep 16, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Why ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ is the one novel that (presciently) sums up the state of the world today

Think of the liberal elite getting snarled while events take their own course.

Satyavrat KK

· Dec 31, 2016 · 05:30 am

It’s easy to see why the Right wanted this book about Indians’ beef-eating history to be banned

DN Jha’s ‘The Myth of the Holy Cow’ examined facts, and its detractors didn’t like that.

Satyavrat KK

· Nov 06, 2016 · 08:30 am

Why this book on India’s annexation of Sikkim needs to be read today

Sunanda K Dutta Ray’s ‘Smash And Grab’ wasn’t banned, but faced enough litigation to keep it out of readers’ reach for nearly 30 years.

Satyavrat KK

· Oct 30, 2016 · 07:30 am

Time to lift the ban on what Nehru’s aide wrote about him and his contemporaries?

MO Mathai’s autobiography was merciless in both disparagement and detail. The third in our series on books banned in India.

Satyavrat KK

· Oct 23, 2016 · 12:30 pm

Why ‘Angaaray’ was banned (and what it could teach an Indian author about writing of women and sex)

The second in our series on books that were banned in India. This anthology was published in 1932 and banned in 1933.

Satyavrat KK

· Oct 08, 2016 · 08:30 am

Aubrey Menen’s ‘Rama Retold’ tells us to laugh at the Ramayana. No wonder it’s still banned

The first in a series on books that were – and remain – banned in India.

Satyavrat KK

· Oct 01, 2016 · 06:30 am