‘Industrial Roots’: Penury, paucity, and pain of working-class women are unmissable in these stories

Nothing in the stories seem bizarre or random. Remember, it all began with a freak accident in which Uncle Tom was killed by a freight train.

Ipshita Mitra

· May 06, 2023 · 02:30 pm

Anjali Joseph’s ‘Keeping in Touch’ is an ode to (extra)ordinary lives in the guise of a romance

The stories of two individuals caught in something of a conundrum.

Ipshita Mitra

· Jul 04, 2021 · 08:30 am

How protesting women farmers mirror ‘The Five Women’ in Mahasweta Devi’s decades-old story

A foreshadowing in fiction of the role chosen by women in the farmers’ protest.

Ipshita Mitra

· Mar 13, 2021 · 08:30 am

How to not be mentally distressed during the lockdown: Read Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’

‘However strange your experience, other people have had it too,’ wrote Woolf in this 1926 essay.

Ipshita Mitra

· May 09, 2020 · 12:30 pm

On Tom Alter’s death anniversary, a friend pays a tribute to the actor’s craft and beliefs

An interview with M Sayeed Alam, the founder of Pierrot’s Troupe who directed Alter in several plays and knew him intimately for two decades.

Ipshita Mitra

· Sep 27, 2019 · 11:30 am

The ministry of utmost translation: Lenka Lichtenberg on translating Arundhati Roy into Czech

‘You have to use all your sensitivity to create the same feeling and impact in a completely different language.’

Ipshita Mitra

· Jun 02, 2019 · 08:30 am

An exhibition looks back at Frida Kahlo’s life and beliefs – through her choice of clothes

The exhibition ‘Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up’ in London shows how the Mexican artist controlled and constructed her identity.

Ipshita Mitra

· Oct 13, 2018 · 11:30 am

What Ekin Oklap can tell readers about translating Orhan Pamuk

An interview with the translator of three of Pamuk’s recent books.

Ipshita Mitra

· Dec 31, 2017 · 06:30 pm

If you check in at the world’s largest literary hotel, you might never want to go out (or leave)

In the Portuguese town of Óbidos is The Literary Man, where books rule over everything.

Ipshita Mitra

· Oct 22, 2017 · 08:30 am