‘A Suitable Boy’: Meet the characters in Vikram Seth’s novel whom you will see on the show

A quick guide to the women and men whom viewers will encounter on Mira Nair’s adaptation of the novel for the BBC.

Devapriya Roy

· Jul 25, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What can happen when old friends and lovers from college reunite two decades later? Ask this novel

Introducing the flaneur/filmmaker from Devapriya Roy’s novel ‘Friends From College’, in which lapsed relationships get a fresh chance.

Devapriya Roy

· Jun 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

In her new novel, poet Tishani Doshi builds a miniature world that looks like a feminist utopia

Crafted in a quiet, first-person narrative, Tishani Doshi’s ‘Small Days and Nights’ examines the possibility of inventing a new kind of existence.

Devapriya Roy

· Apr 07, 2019 · 10:30 am

Women’s Day: Eight books that talk of being a woman in India, circa 2019

They have nothing in common besides the authenticity of their voices.

Devapriya Roy

· Mar 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

Nayantara Sahgal on #MeToo: ‘In a democracy, no citizen is guilty because someone said so’

The writer explains why she has decided not to accept invitations to literary festivals that have placed a blanket ban on men named by the movement.

Devapriya Roy

· Feb 01, 2019 · 08:30 am

A graphic novel recreates how a young Priyanka Gandhi viewed her Prime Minister grandmother Indira

The last chapter of Devapriya Roy and Priya Kurien’s ‘Indira’ pictures Priyanka Gandhi’s perspective.

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Priya Kuriyan

· Jan 28, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Two courageous women: Namita Gokhale talks about her new books on Radha and Ra’ana Liaqat Ali

An interview with the author and editor who is also the co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Devapriya Roy

· Jan 19, 2019 · 12:30 pm

How the World Book Fair brought up a writer’s memories (and the desire for Toni Morrison’s books)

As a writer looks back to 2006, a photo tour of the World Book Fair 2019 in Delhi shows us what the latest version looks like.

Devapriya Roy

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Sambit Dattachaudhuri

· Jan 13, 2019 · 08:30 am

Neelesh Misra’s universe of rural imagination does not travel well from radio to a book

They were wonderful to listen to, but the stories written by Misra’s ‘mandali’ lose their charm on the page and in translation.

Devapriya Roy

· Sep 15, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Being young and very rich in urban Pakistan can be heartbreaking too, shows this debut novel

More than individual lives, it’s Lahore and its urbane society that star in Nadia Akbar’s ‘Goodbye Freddie Mercury’.

Devapriya Roy

· Jul 29, 2018 · 07:00 am

There’s much more to Reham Khan’s memoir than Imran Khan’s scandals

But the writer is a little too intent on destroying her famous ex-husband.

Devapriya Roy

· Jul 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

Writer’s choice: Ngugi wa Thiong’o recommends seven novels from Africa that you must read

When you need to look beyond Chinua Achebe and Naguib Mahfouz.

Devapriya Roy

· Jul 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm