The backdrop of war and violence make Sri Lankan novels gut-wrenching. This one shows why

Anu Kumar

· Oct 30, 2016 · 06:30 pm

As Man Booker winner Paul Beatty is about to find out, literary celebrity changes everything

Rebecca Braun, The Conversation

· Oct 30, 2016 · 08:30 am

How the use of the present tense in fiction is making readers...tense

Camilla Nelson, The Conversation

· Oct 29, 2016 · 03:30 pm

JM Coetzee’s new novel asks a crucial question: When everyone’s the same, can a person be different?

Arnab Chakraborty

· Oct 29, 2016 · 11:30 am

'It isn’t autobiography, but it's a daughter’s book in every way': Madeleine Thien

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Oct 29, 2016 · 10:00 am

Why the Uttara Kanda changes the way the Ramayana should be read

Arshia Sattar

· Oct 29, 2016 · 06:30 am

How to get a Bangalore PhD: Precious Hours of Dining (and Drinking)

TJS George

· Oct 28, 2016 · 08:30 am

When Britain claimed India would be independent without any intention of allowing it

Walter Reid

· Oct 27, 2016 · 08:30 am

American writer Paul Beatty brings back slavery and segregation to win the £50,000 Man Booker Prize

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Oct 26, 2016 · 08:30 am

In a shock move, HarperCollins India publisher Karthika VK quits after ten years in the job

Arunava Sinha

· Oct 25, 2016 · 12:12 pm

'Are you happy we're married?' What do you do when war is the reason you have to marry a stranger?

Anuk Arudpragasam

· Oct 25, 2016 · 08:30 am

First read: The story of the boxer who had to win more bouts outside the ring than in it

Moti Nandy

· Oct 24, 2016 · 08:30 am

Time to lift the ban on what Nehru’s aide wrote about him and his contemporaries?

Satyavrat KK

· Oct 23, 2016 · 12:30 pm

The strange case of Taslima Nasrin and authors who spearheaded the ban of her autobiography

Taslima Nasrin

· Oct 23, 2016 · 08:30 am

A ghazal that Ghalib did not write for Ambedkar (but could have)

S Anand

· Oct 23, 2016 · 06:30 am

Why we need a new, truly global, prize for world literature

Mahmud Rahman

· Oct 22, 2016 · 12:30 pm

Five declassified secrets reveal India’s moves with global superpowers during the Cold War

Vivek Prahladan

· Oct 22, 2016 · 10:30 am

Sorry, people, but it was for poetry and not lyrics that Tagore won the Nobel

Anuradha Sharma

· Oct 22, 2016 · 08:30 am

‘This book is a companion for those who have chosen to be single instead of unhappily partnered’

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 22, 2016 · 07:00 am

Are you a young Indian woman born in the USA? These are your stories

Anu Kumar

· Oct 21, 2016 · 08:30 am