‘The Non-Essential Ashis Nandy’ is essential reading for our times. Especially for the young

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In how many ways can one person recover from mental health problems? These essays count the steps

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Mar 17, 2021 · 08:30 am

The success of this anthology of 200 years of English essays from India is that it is for everyone

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jan 16, 2021 · 08:30 am

How should parents behave with their children to make them independent? Premchand had a solution

Premchand

· Jul 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm

An Indian adman-entrepreneur’s view on why silence is important in Japanese culture

Sandeep Goyal

· Nov 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Remembering the legacy of Progress Publishers, and its connection to a new book of essays

Vijay Prashad

· Jul 20, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Best of 2018: Books about the life of a writer

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· Dec 31, 2018 · 04:27 pm

Feel Free

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· Dec 31, 2018 · 04:23 pm

Manto Saheb: Friends and Enemies of the Great Maverick

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· Dec 31, 2018 · 04:23 pm

How To Write an Autobiographical Novel

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· Dec 31, 2018 · 04:22 pm

Will India ever be a great power? Twenty-four other questions are also answered in this book

Patralekha Chatterjee

· Jul 08, 2018 · 08:30 am

A new book brings together writings on ‘modern marriage’ but what does that actually mean?

Apoorva Sripathi

· Jun 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The warp of love meets the weft of identity in this anthology of essays about Love (not love)

Devapriya Roy

· Jun 16, 2018 · 07:00 am

A painstaking attempt to probe the behaviours of Indians ends as a tepid effort in this book

Urmi Chanda-Vaz

· Apr 21, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Zadie Smith’s new book proves that some novelists can be engaging essayists too

Somak Mukherjee

· Mar 22, 2018 · 08:30 am

Were the Obama years good for black people in America? An essayist asks the question in his new book

Anu Kumar

· Dec 04, 2017 · 08:30 am

Ruskin Bond is 83 today. He reveals where he found the novels he wrote

Ruskin Bond

· May 19, 2017 · 08:30 am

Love Neil Gaiman the novelist? So do we, but did he really have to write these childish essays?

Ipsita Chakravarty

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