Seven illustrators and hundreds of writers are crafting this story one line at a time

Saptan Stories by the British Council in India marks 70 years of Indo-UK relations.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· 12 hours ago

Ironically, the book that Ramdev has got an injunction against also lacks a moral compass

This book is more in awe of Ramdev’s entrepreneurship than it is intent on investigating the allegations it cites.

Nitin Sethi

· 18 hours ago

How a 15-member team produced a lush visual version of the ‘Mahabharata’

The new edition focuses on art and borrows stories from regional versions of the epic.

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Yesterday · 03:30 pm

Eight melancholic, introspective poems by Parimal Hansda on being a Santhal today

Of lives lived in constant conflict...between love, fear, desire, death.

Parimal Hansda

· Yesterday · 12:30 pm

How many copies must a book sell to be a bestseller in India (and why are there so many lists?)

The truth is that there is no one accurate estimate of the sales of a book.

Amish Raj Mulmi

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

How misogyny and rejections shape this poet’s approach to her art (and to her audience)

Nabanita Kanungo’s poetry is also informed with her other passion, which is geography.

Rohini Kejriwal

· Yesterday · 06:00 am

Women science fiction writers won big at the Hugo awards this year. Here are five you should read

There’s life, some of it alien, beyond Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood and James Triptree Jr.

Mimi Mondal

· Aug 19, 2017 · 07:30 pm

An American writer of Indian origin has written a marvellous book about memory, not immigrants

Durga Chew-Bose’s essays in ‘Too Much and Not the Mood’ will make the reader search for themselves too.

Anu Kumar

· Aug 19, 2017 · 05:30 pm

This epic saga of a Kerala port is as much history as it is a work of expansive imagination

Ancient, medieval, and recent history, populated by characters and communities spread over 2000 years.

Jael Silliman

· Aug 19, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘An Evening in Lahore’: The Partition cannot breach a friendship in Navtej Singh’s short story

One of a special selection of four short stories about Independence and Partition, by writers from India and Pakistan.

Navtej Singh

· Aug 19, 2017 · 06:00 am

Memories of August 15, 1947, the tug of war of accession, and intrigue in Pakistan

Poet and writer Keki N Daruwalla was 10 years old when India gained freedom (and 11 when Gandhi was assassinated).

Keki N Daruwalla

· Aug 18, 2017 · 06:30 pm

How nationalists devised the idea of equating India with a mother

The motherland was not meant to be metaphorical but a real, feminised figure.

Sugata Bose

· Aug 18, 2017 · 08:30 am