Vinod Kumar Shukla: An artist forever seeking to be one with his conscientious creation

Shukla is the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature for 2023.

Nikhil Govind

· Mar 25, 2023 · 08:30 am

A study of the Mahabharata: When Arjuna’s punishment turned into an adventure of love, friendship

An excerpt from ‘The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata’, by Nikhil Govind.

Nikhil Govind

· Mar 17, 2023 · 11:30 am

A new English translation of ‘Ramcharitmanas’ reminds us of the crucial questions Tulsidas asks

‘The Epic of Ram’ affords new ways of asking literary, philosophical and religious questions – both for 16-century urbanised Benaras, as well as for our time.

Nikhil Govind

· Oct 29, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Growing Up Karanth’ is a personal sketch of Shivarama Karanth’s life as remembered by his children

Shivarama Karanth was a novelist in the Kannada language, playwright, and an ecological conservationist.

Nikhil Govind

· Sep 17, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘A Time to Change’: How Nissim Ezekiel became the pioneer of a new era of English poetry in India

Published in 1952, the volume was one of the first significant books of postcolonial poetry in English.

Nikhil Govind

· Aug 07, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Arundhathi Subramaniam’s new book maps the unique journeys of four lesser-known spiritual travellers

‘Women Who Wear Only Themselves’ provides glimpses of lives beyond those of talkative sadhus who inhabit social media.

Nikhil Govind

· Jul 10, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Chetan Bhagat’s new novel works not as a thriller but as an examination of the contemporary family

‘One Arranged Murder’ is a whodunit only schematically. It is more of an appraisal of a metropolitan social ethos.

Nikhil Govind

· Oct 10, 2020 · 08:30 am

Is ‘Suhledev’ history, fiction, or myth? Amish’s new book deliberately blurs the question

Suheldev is essentially a swashbuckling medieval bad boy who is nevertheless up to much good.

Nikhil Govind

· Sep 26, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Ambedkar wanted unjust, unconscionable suffering to inform the critical idiom of the Constitution

An excerpt from ‘Inlays of Subjectivity: Affect and Action in Modern Indian Literature’, by Nikhil Govind.

Nikhil Govind

· Dec 12, 2019 · 08:30 am

This biography of the Indian Constitution is not about the law today but about the ideal equilibrium

Gautam Bhatia’s book, ‘The Transformative Constitution’ will help many in the path toward legal literacy and thus a fuller and more participative citizenship.’

Nikhil Govind

· May 26, 2019 · 07:30 am

This book on Adi Shankaracharya could have been a vital revaluation of tradition. It isn’t

Pavan K Varma’s Atta Galatta-BLF Prize-winning book has its merits but ultimately suffers from too many drawbacks.

Nikhil Govind

· Jan 27, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life

In ‘Shahryar: A Life in Poetry’, Rakshanda Jalil works as both biographer and translator.

Nikhil Govind

· Oct 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm