‘We’re both very superstitious’: Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell get candid about ‘Tomb Of Sand’

A free-wheeling chat with International Booker Prize winners Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell’s about superstitions, Hindustani music, sparrows, and more.

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Jun 18, 2022 · 08:30 am

International Booker Prize 2022: Notes from the readings before the prize announcement

Several of the shortlisted authors and translators read from their books at the Southbank Centre in London. Whose names will be announced as winners today?

Vighnesh Hampapura

· May 26, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Tomb of Sand’: Geetanjali Shree’s novel may be the most original and undefinable work of our times

In Daisy Rockwell’s virtuoso translation, this Hindi novel has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Shree Thaarshini Sriraman

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Vighnesh Hampapura

· Apr 23, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Avasthe’: UR Ananthamurthy’s novel interrogates politics for its relationship with love and life

Unfortunately, this English version is more of a novel-sized rendition of the novel than a living, breathing translation.

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Jan 17, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘The Lying Life of Adults’: Why we can’t stop reading a novel featuring an unlikeable adolescent

Elena Ferrante’s latest is true to the limitations of its narrator – and the lies of living.

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Nov 28, 2020 · 05:30 pm

The English translation of Perumal Murugan’s first novel lets down its craft and intent

In the original, this Tamil novel foreshadows its famous successors like ‘One Part Woman’, but the English version flattens its registers.

Yashasvi Arunkumar

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Vighnesh Hampapura

· Aug 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘You feel left behind. You can divert that anger to demand justice, or towards radicalisation’

An interview with Åsne Seierstad, the author of ‘The Bookseller of Kabul’ and ‘One Of Us’.

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Mar 08, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘The best shows, like Breaking Bad, come from people who have plunged deeply into literature’

An interview with Stephen Greenblatt, whose latest book examines Shakespeare in the context of present-day political dictators.

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Mar 01, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘We actually think in poetry. Because we cannot speak in poetry, we speak inadequately’: Lemn Sissay

An interview with poet, essayist, playwright and scriptwriter Lemn Sissay.

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Feb 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Does upper caste society acknowledge the private reservations it has had for years?’: Yashica Dutt

An interview with the writer of ‘Coming Out As Dalit’.

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Feb 02, 2020 · 07:30 am

A master Tamil storyteller turns the quotidian into a tour of human psychology in his short fiction

In the five short stories in ‘Bullocks From The West’, Na Muthuswamy asks troubling questions about the insidious intensity of everyday events.

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Apr 20, 2019 · 05:30 pm