‘The American Boyfriend’: This mystery about mistaken identities makes for a leisurely vacation read

As Phoebe and her two-year-old daughter’s vacation gets increasingly un-vacation-like, she realises the sooner she leaves, the better.

Sayari Debnath

· May 27, 2023 · 03:30 pm

‘Absolutely fantastic’: Writing platform Pratilipi CEO a year after publishing books with Westland

An interview with Pratilipi co-founder and CEO Ranjeet Pratap Singh.

Sayari Debnath

· May 21, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘Pakistan’s erasure of the 1971 Liberation War from conversations is dangerous’: Author Aamina Ahmad

‘Nations often don’t want to confront troubling histories but it strikes me as imperative that we do.’

Sayari Debnath

· May 14, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘A challenge of translating from Rajasthani is to keep its orality alive in English’: Vishes Kothari

‘I can’t help but marvel at how Rajasthani is thriving outside urban centres. The huge adoption of the language on social media is particularly heartening.’

Sayari Debnath

· May 06, 2023 · 08:30 am

May fiction: Stories set in newly independent India, dystopian near-future India, and more

Two novels in translation, three novels originally written in the English, and a collection of short stories translated from the Hindi.

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 30, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Truth/Untruth’: Mahasweta Devi’s novel about a pregnant maid’s death is as comedic as it is morbid

Translator Anjum Katyal is astute, sharp, and the perfect mediator for Devi’s words.

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 30, 2023 · 07:30 am

New in May: Six recent books of nonfiction show how far India has come – and how far it can go

Stories about one of the greatest sportsman of India, the biography of India’s first tribal president, the long fight for natural conservation, and more.

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 29, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘I wanted to show that mothers are worthy’: Bonnie Garmus, author of ‘Lessons in Chemistry’

‘Everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules, including ourselves. The idea that someone’s atoms and molecules are not as good as yours is false.’

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 15, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘I always think of married women with children as very sad people’: Writer Buku Sarkar

‘I have very intense friendships unlike Anjali and Anita. But they were childhood friends trying to stay in touch as adults, which is always challenging.’

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 08, 2023 · 03:30 pm

April fiction: Four novels and two short story collections to read this month

A novel inspired by an episode from ‘The Mahabharata’, a middle-aged couple’s love story, a man from Motihari who falls in love with an American woman, and more

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 02, 2023 · 02:30 pm

‘Mother Muse Quintet’: Naveen Kishore’s new book of poetry offers lyrical gratitude to memories

What do we do with the love we have for a person who is no longer around?

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 02, 2023 · 11:30 am

New in nonfiction: Six recently published books to better understand contemporary India

Two memoirs, the first of an ambitious two-volume biography of BR Ambedkar, the cinematic legacy of filmmaker Shyam Benegal, and more.

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 01, 2023 · 12:30 pm