Farewell to bookseller Mirza Yaseen Baig of Midland, who always greeted readers with recommendations

The founder of Delhi’s Midland bookshop died on Thursday at the age of 94.

Sayantan Ghosh

· Nov 26, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Can working from home really be the answer for a publishing company and especially its editors?

The pandemic threatens to change the office dramatically, or even abolish it. Is this going to be good for publishers?

Sayantan Ghosh

· Sep 02, 2020 · 08:30 am

What we talk about when we talk about writing a novel during the pandemic

A commissioning editor writes, only half in jest, about the books he’d like to see being pitched for publication.

Sayantan Ghosh

· Jun 20, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Halla Bol’: Safdar Hashmi’s biography reminds us what it means to be a citizen of a democracy

The line between Hashmi’s murder by a lynch mob in 1989 near Delhi and the killing of 53 people in 2020 in North East Delhi is a short one.

Sayantan Ghosh

· Mar 22, 2020 · 08:30 am

Ian McEwan’s new novel on human rights for machines is entertaining but not original on ideas

Almost none of the questions posed in ‘Machines Like Me’ are new, but the novelist’s skills make for a highly readable book.

Sayantan Ghosh

· Jul 06, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Could the contents of your bookshelf get you arrested? This is not an unrealistic question anymore

Why do you read the works of Leftist thinkers, activists were asked when being arrested.

Sayantan Ghosh

· Sep 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Adieu, Philip Roth, you seeped through our skins (while we weren’t looking)

A writer’s tribute to arguably the greatest American novelist of the second half of the 20th Century.

Sayantan Ghosh

· May 25, 2018 · 05:30 pm