‘Courtesy of Criticism’: Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti’s essays exhibit his capacious vision

Nikhil Govind

· Mar 01, 2025 · 01:30 pm

Translated Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘Shatabdi Ke Jharokhe Se’, by Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha Ashutosh Bharadwaj

· Feb 21, 2025 · 06:30 pm

Perumal Murugan’s intimate look into the lives of his college students from small-town Tamil Nadu

Perumal Murugan V Iswarya

· Feb 21, 2025 · 08:30 am

In a new book of essays, a writer takes a closer look at her complicated relationship with her body

Scaachi Koul

· Feb 19, 2025 · 01:30 pm

‘Merely companies to conduct examinations’: What Lokmanya Tilak thought of Indian universities

Lokmanya Tilak Nadeem Khan Yashodhan Parande

· Feb 05, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Not such a bad thing’: Why did feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain say this about the burka?

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Ben Baer

· Jan 09, 2025 · 08:30 am

‘Whom do you write for?’: Tabish Khair argues why writers should refuse to answer this question

Tabish Khair

· Dec 21, 2024 · 08:30 am

A Tibetan writer reflects on the fight for his motherland while living in ‘exile’ in India

Tsering Namgyal Khortsa

· Dec 17, 2024 · 08:30 am

In a new book, novelist Tabish Khair argues that ‘literature’ is fundamental to human nature

Tabish Khair

· Dec 04, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘Asides, Tirades, Meditations’: Kiran Nagarkar wrote with an electric style on a host of topics

Shevlin Sebastian

· Oct 20, 2024 · 11:30 am

‘Philosophy is an act of illuminating the invisible’: Sundar Sarukkai on human perception

Sundar Sarukkai

· Oct 12, 2024 · 03:30 pm

How a tourist frenzy affects Goa’s local population and ecosystems

Maria Aurora Couto

· Sep 19, 2024 · 08:30 am

Writer Veio Pou on the struggles of living and raising children in Delhi as a ‘North-Eastern’ person

Veio Pou

· Aug 14, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘Riverside Stories’: This book of writings from Assam gives space to marginalised voices and themes

Shibani Phukan

· Aug 11, 2024 · 07:30 am

In this collection of essays about mothers, Pakistani women explore the many meanings of feminism

Maria Amir

· Jun 27, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Walter Benjamin’s ‘Illuminations’ is a remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker

Jamie Q Roberts, The Conversation

· Jan 21, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘A Memoir of My Former Self’: Hilary Mantel’s final book is proof that she still had stories to tell

Jenni Ramone, The Conversation

· Oct 25, 2023 · 05:30 pm

How did low-cost posters influence nationalism in the decades leading up to and after the Partition?

Yousuf Saeed

· Oct 24, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘Bantering with Bandits’: Annie Zaidi’s searing truths about Indian preoccupations and peculiarities

Saloni Sharma

· Sep 24, 2023 · 01:30 pm

This book asks whether history lessons in schools and colleges can play a role in promoting peace

Krishna Kumar

· Jul 18, 2023 · 08:30 am