‘Sitai and Surpanakai’: This story turns a female rivalry from the Ramayana on its head

An excerpt from ‘The Birth of Kali’, a collection of stories that subverts patriarchal narratives from Hindu mythology.

Anita Sivakumaran

· 5 hours ago

Scroll Quiz: How well do you know these novels centred around Indian independence?

Some of the best accounts of the time have been through fiction.

Harsimran Gill

· Yesterday · 06:30 pm

Memories of Hadali: Khushwant Singh’s recollection of a childhood home lost to time and Partition

On Khushwant Singh’s 103rd birth anniversary, an excerpt from a new edited collection of his writings.

Khushwant Singh

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

In this novel, a teenager tells the story of Independence and Partition as she sees them

Nisha and her family must leave their home because it is now a new country named Pakistan, while they must live in India.

Veera Hiranandani

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

Freedom for India: How Tatya Tope gave the British a harrowing time before being betrayed

Born Ramachandra Panduranga, Tatya Tope played a leading role in the rebellion of 1857.

Pandit Sunderlal

· Yesterday · 07:30 am

What KG Subramanyan’s poetry says about his art (and what his art says about his poetry)

The renowned artist also wrote poetry, which had a strong relationship with the subjects of his art.

R Siva Kumar

· Aug 14, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘No doubt that there are membership elements of RSS who have engaged in lynching’: Walter Andersen

In a conversation about his new book on the RSS, co-written with Shridhar Damle, the American academic explains how he thinks the organisation functions.

Ajaz Ashraf

· Aug 14, 2018 · 08:30 am

The idea of ‘untranslatable’ words says more about English speakers than other cultures

Be sceptical when it's claimed that a language has 'no word for X' or '50 words for Y'.

Laura Bailey, The Conversation

· Aug 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Writer-activist Lakshman’s autobiography is a coming-of-age story and a piercing indictment of caste

The writer and activist from the Madiga community died in 2017. His autobiography has finally been translated from Kannada into English.

Lakshman

· Aug 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

How Joan Didion’s ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ made a writer working on her memoir think of death

And why Manjiri Indurkar finished reading the book though she didn’t dare to.

Manjiri Indurkar

· Aug 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The VS Naipaul reading list: Five books that reveal his complicated legacy

How do we look back at the prolific career of a literary giant at a moment in history when the world is re-thinking men like him and writing like his?

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 12, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Two worlds’: VS Naipaul’s 2001 Nobel lecture

‘Talent, Proust says. I would say luck, and much labour’

VS Naipaul

· Aug 12, 2018 · 10:30 am