‘My novel is at a four-way stop of racism, misogyny, invisibility and being othered in America’

Purged of immigrant angst, Devi S Laskar’s first novel looks up close at the realities of being a woman of colour in today’s America.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· 2 hours ago

Revisiting the works of Rajkamal Chowdhary, the writer whom Hindi literature could never categorise

The second of a series on Hindi writers who were famous in their day but have slipped out of public attention now.

Saudamini Deo

· 4 hours ago

This poignant memoir about coming out as Dalit provokes the question: Whom do we write for?

Yashica Dutt’s detailed and emotional memoir weaves political narratives with personal experience.

Christina Thomas Dhanaraj

· Yesterday · 05:30 pm

‘We have heard your call’: Gulzar replies to Javed Akhtar’s stirring poem asking writers to speak up

‘You are not alone, we have heeded that challenge’

Gulzar

· Yesterday · 01:11 pm

The story of ‘Chocolate’, the Hindi story published in 1924 that created a furore over homosexuality

The discussion instigated by the story may have been the first public debate on homosexuality during the British Raj in India.

Rohit Chakraborty

· Yesterday · 12:30 pm

Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poems present the politics and poignance of being marginalised in a distant land

‘We are told / that historians call us / other people’.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

An imaginative Mughal-inspired fantasy novel gives us a layered world and a terrifying antagonist

Tasha Suri’s ‘Empire of Sand’ draws on the history of colonialism and religious fanaticism to create a unique world.

Ashwitha Jayakumar

· Yesterday · 07:30 am

Elections 2019: Can Opposition unity create a ‘two-party’ situation, asks Prannoy Roy’s new book

‘The Verdict’: Prannoy Roy and Dorab R Sopariwala’s book mines past electoral trends to present the possibilities of the 2019 elections.

Prannoy Roy

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Dorab R Sopariwala

· Mar 22, 2019 · 06:30 pm

Imperfect and absurd, the modern literary heroine is a woman of our times

‘The 21st-century heroine may be scarred, imperfect or absurd. True love may be on the cards, but so might illicit sex.’

Sally O'Reilly, The Conversation

· Mar 22, 2019 · 08:30 am

Why we don’t need one World Poetry Day a year to savour the joys of poetry

Every time we read a poem, it gives us a new meaning.

Anupama Raju

· Mar 21, 2019 · 06:30 pm

This new ghazal by Javed Akhtar is a clarion call for writers to wield their pens in dark times

‘The night was never so dark ever before, write!’

Javed Akhtar

· Mar 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm

How Shakespeare shaped his plays (and made Hamlet fat) to suit his leading man

Richard Burbage was the first person to play Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth but he did not age particularly well.

Lisa Hopkins, The Conversation

· Mar 21, 2019 · 08:30 am