Why it’s important not just to read (and listen to) stories, but to tell them too

Shohini Sengupta

· Dec 04, 2016 · 12:30 pm

My sister is dead: A heartbreaking tale of migration from North-East India

Nandita Haksar

· Dec 04, 2016 · 08:30 am

No one remembers Marie Corelli, the best-selling novelist of Victorian Britain

Anu Kumar

· Dec 04, 2016 · 08:15 am

What is a writer to do with freedom? (Or, lessons from Albert Camus)

Rheea Mukherjee

· Dec 03, 2016 · 08:30 am

How Twinkle Khanna is stirring up India’s publishing world (and selling lots of books)

Neha Bhatt

· Dec 03, 2016 · 06:30 am

‘The transistor’: A chilling short story from Kashmir

Shahnaz Bashir

· Dec 02, 2016 · 08:30 am

What Shilpa Shetty taught us about the art of reading novels is revealed in these 35 mini-reviews

Ahona Panda

· Nov 30, 2016 · 08:30 am

What the mythologies of the Western worlds could mean for Indian philosophies (and vice versa)

Devdutt Pattanaik

· Nov 29, 2016 · 08:30 am

Demonetisation in fiction: Peppermint sweets replace the rupee as currency in this short story

Aadhavan Dheetchanya

· Nov 28, 2016 · 08:30 am

How the Seemanchal Literary Festival drew me out of my happy bubble, a first for a litfest

Rheea Mukherjee

· Nov 27, 2016 · 10:45 am

Here is a new way to read Elena Ferrante: Try walking through Naples

Veena Muthuraman

· Nov 26, 2016 · 11:00 am

The ICSE English literature syllabus has changed. But Harry Potter and Agatha Christie, really?

Devapriya Roy

· Nov 26, 2016 · 08:30 am

First read: When the Tamil Lalgudi Iyer discovers he is the reincarnation of Bhima

Ryan Lobo

· Nov 25, 2016 · 08:30 am

Who would have thought Jhumpa Lahiri and Elena Ferrante had so much in common?

Priyanka Borpujari

· Nov 22, 2016 · 08:30 am

This book uses fiction to tell the (largely unread) story of Sindh

Bina Shah

· Nov 20, 2016 · 12:30 pm

Five biographies through which to revisit the strange life and times of Indira Gandhi

Devapriya Roy

· Nov 20, 2016 · 08:30 am

The new ‘Fantastic Beasts’ book makes you long for the novel (if only Rowling had written one)

Devapriya Roy

· Nov 20, 2016 · 07:00 am

Javed Akhtar’s poem ‘A New Decree’ may remind you of the world we live in

Javed Akhtar Rakhshanda Jalil

· Nov 20, 2016 · 06:30 am

That evening when people listened instead of reading, and remembered why they love stories

Neha Bhatt

· Nov 19, 2016 · 12:30 pm

Why India’s no-first strike nuclear policy makes sense (as defence ministers should know)

Shivshankar Menon

· Nov 19, 2016 · 10:30 am