‘Relapse’: Like history, is love with the same person repeated first as tragedy and then as farce?

Written by one stalwart of Hindi literature and translated by another, Srikant Verma’s ‘Relapse’ offers possibilities but spoils them with stereotype.

Suhasini Patni

· 2 hours ago

Shakespeare: Not a parent but a twin of modern Indian cinema and theatre, says a delicious new book

Jonathan Gil Harris’s ‘Masala Shakespeare’ is a mixture of cultural criticism, film journalism, social history and lively, opinionated autobiography.

Supriya Nair

· 5 hours ago

Mary Beard interview: ‘Being a popular writer helps you say the unpopular’

An interview with the classicist and historian about the problems with social media, looking at the classics through a modern lens and populism today.

Harsimran Gill

· 7 hours ago

What if our everyday emotions turned into diseases? This novel explores the possibilities

Vikram Paralkar’s ‘The Afflictions’ identifies states of being through a unique fictional encyclopaedia.

Sayali Palekar

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

A science fiction conference in Kolkata showed that the genre has remained alive and well in Bengal

It is true, however, that Indian science fiction has been a bit of a stepchild of the Indian literary canon.

Sandip Roy

· Yesterday · 12:30 pm

This crime series set in Bangkok’s neon-lit streets brings the city’s lurid side to life

British writer John Burdett’s Sonchai Jitpleecheep series compels Western readers to look beyond Thailand’s beaches and the fetishisation of its sex industry.

Amish Raj Mulmi

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

Desire, alienation and masculinity: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s fiery new novel displaces the canon

The author of ‘The Adivasi Will Not Dance’ resists stereotype and is more dissident than ever before in ‘My Father’s Garden’.

Sandhya Devesan Nambiar

· Yesterday · 07:00 am

How Mirza Ghalib’s ghazals traveled to America and became a part of the country’s poetic tradition

The Urdu poet died on this day, February 15, 150 years ago. A rich translation tradition has ensured his legacy lives on, even far away from home.

Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia

· Feb 15, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Hijabistan’: The hijab unites these stories about urban women in Pakistan and beyond

An excerpt from ‘The Adulteress’, one of the short stories in a new book by Sabyn Javeri, the author of ‘Nobody Killed Her’.

Sabyn Javeri

· Feb 15, 2019 · 08:30 am

Romila Thapar: ‘Who were the Aryans?’ is a less important question than what it meant to be ‘Aryan’

The book ‘Which Of Us Are Aryans?’ approaches the question through various disciplines such as genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, besides historiography.

Romila Thapar

· Feb 14, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Durjoy Datta: Even bestselling authors can’t afford to quit their day jobs in India

The romance writer explains why even those at the top of the bestseller charts need to supplement the income they make from their books.

Durjoy Datta

· Feb 14, 2019 · 08:30 am

After the massacre: What happened at Jallianwala Bagh then (and what has happened to it now)

Kim A Wagner’s ‘Jallianwala Bagh’ revisits the making of the massacre that took place 100 years ago in 1919.

Kim A Wagner

· Feb 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm