‘The Angel’s Beauty Spots’: Love and violence are blended into KR Meera’s new book of novellas

An excerpt from the eponymous novella, translated from the Malayalam by J Devika.

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· Sep 06, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘When George III Drives a Train’: A short story by KR Meera

‘We were mesmerised when the young man, the unionist, who had cast aside the priest’s garb, spoke in the language of revolution and equality...’

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· Jan 31, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Politics, not Hindu feelings’: Writer KR Meera on why S Hareesh's 'Meesha' was withdrawn in Kerala

The magnitude of the organised attack against the novel has no precedence in Malayalam.

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· Jul 28, 2018 · 08:30 am

KR Meera’s new novel returns to familiar themes of longing, loss and obsession

In ‘The Unseeing Idol of Light’, a husband struggles to overcome the sudden disappearance of his pregnant wife.

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· Apr 04, 2018 · 08:30 am

No one writes about searing love like KR Meera does, and this novel proves it again

'Shouldn’t women laugh? Don’t you know that you have to make a woman laugh before you...'

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· Apr 08, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Malayalam writer KR Meera writes explosively, and her new novel is no exception

Book excerpt: In ‘The Gospel of Yudas’, a former Naxalite carries a secret that won’t let him accept a lover.

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· Jun 18, 2016 · 12:30 pm

The beginnings of a hangwoman’s career managing the noose

The first in a series of excerpts from the books longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. First up: ‘Hangwoman’.

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· Nov 10, 2015 · 08:30 am