This illustrated storybook shows children how to talk about sexual abuse

Protsahan India Foundation’s ‘Can I Tell You Something?’ navigates sexuality, puberty, consent and the all-powerful act of speaking up.

Malavika Neurekar

· 5 hours ago

What (or who) is the Ganga? Bidisha Banerjee travelled the length of the river to write this book

An excerpt from ‘Superhuman River: Stories of the Ganga’.

Bidisha Banerjee

· 14 hours ago

How post-World World War II America fell in love with romance comics

The years 1950 and 1951 saw a boom in the genre and have been dubbed the ‘love glut’.

Michael C Weisenburg, The Conversation

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

How independent Pakistan’s search for a music of its own made the qawwali popular on the radio

An excerpt from ‘Soul Rivals: State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan’, by Nadeem Farooq Paracha.

Nadeem Farooq Paracha

· Yesterday · 07:30 am

What is love between millennials like? This novel might be India’s ‘Normal People’

An excerpt from Arjun Nath’s novel ‘Not All Those Who Wander’

Arjun Nath

· Feb 17, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Once Upon A City’: The magical spot that was (and is) Hill Road in Mumbai’s Bandra

Bandra’s arterial street is as deeply steeped in general lore as it is in personal memory for one who has grown up on it.

Meher Marfatia

· Feb 17, 2020 · 07:30 am

How the politics and language of ‘coming out’ in the LGBTQ community have evolved over the centuries

It began with the need for community, gradually transforming into a radical, political movement.

Abigail C Saguy, The Conversation

· Feb 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm

What makes a building go up in flames in this short story? How is it related to a secret illness?

In Ipshita Nath’s ‘The List’, any resemblance with current events is just that, a resemblance.

Ipshita Nath

· Feb 16, 2020 · 08:30 am

Kashmir comes to the reader as a series of perceptions of reality in Siddhartha Gigoo’s new novel

How do those subjected to loss and trauma really remember it?

Manisha Gangahar

· Feb 16, 2020 · 07:30 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

How to write about India’s North East: 13 tips for you if you’re from somewhere else in India

Assamese author Aruni Kashyap is inspired by the writer Binyavanga Wainaina’s satirical piece, ‘How to write about Africa’.

Aruni Kashyap

· Feb 15, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘Panjab’: Amandeep Sandhu’s journeys through the state reveal a land torn apart repeatedly

Reading this book allows us to go beyond the stereotypes of Punjab.

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

· Feb 15, 2020 · 07:30 am