‘Acid’: A hallucinatory novel that overturns traditional ideas of family and motherhood

Sangeetha Sreenivasan’s psychedelic novel, originally written in Malayalam, is at its core an indictment of the expectations placed on women.

Apoorva Sripathi

· Sep 08, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A new book brings together writings on ‘modern marriage’ but what does that actually mean?

‘Knot For Keeps’, an anthology of fiction and non-fiction writing on the modern marriage focuses on urban, privileged pairings.

Apoorva Sripathi

· Jun 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Light and darkness: KR Meera’s newly translated novel is much more than a woman’s disappearance

In ‘The Unseeing Idol of Light’, Meera strikingly evokes the feminist imagery she is known and loved for.

Apoorva Sripathi

· Apr 29, 2018 · 10:30 am

This deeply personal and unconventional memoir about depression, loss and abuse reinvents the form

Gayathri Prabhu’s ‘If I Had To Tell It Again’ shows us how many such stories must be out there and need to see the light of day.

Apoorva Sripathi

· Feb 11, 2018 · 07:00 am

Why is love furious, fleeting, and foreign? Ask Janice Pariat’s new novel

Can the nine narrators in ‘The Nine Chambered Heart’ explain why they love the same young woman?

Apoorva Sripathi

· Dec 24, 2017 · 07:00 am