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Paromita Patranobish

Here’s what’s special about Madhuri Vijay’s ‘The Far Field’, winner of the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize

The novel does not offer easy, totalising, and predictable resolutions.

Paromita Patranobish
· Nov 03, 2019 · 08:30 am
Will we read Toni Morrison in troubled times? Yes, we will read Toni Morrison on troubled times

The works of the Nobel Laureate who died on August 5, 2019 are a navigational compass through our own treacherous landscapes.

Paromita Patranobish
· Aug 17, 2019 · 12:30 pm
Colson Whitehead returns with a novel uncovering a brutal, buried story of Black history

The writer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘The Underground Railroad’ excavates a violent history of racialism.

Paromita Patranobish
· Aug 10, 2019 · 12:30 pm

How are humans damaging the earth? This book goes beneath the ground to reveal a slow violence

Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Underland’ explores underground structures both literally and metaphorically to unearth a story of destruction wrought by human beings.

Paromita Patranobish
· Jul 28, 2019 · 12:30 pm