This poignant memoir about coming out as Dalit provokes the question: Whom do we write for?

Christina Thomas Dhanaraj

· Mar 23, 2019 · 05:30 pm

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· Mar 01, 2019 · 10:00 pm

Why (and how) a young school student had to pretend to be upper caste and hide her Dalit identity

Yashica Dutt

· Feb 27, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This Indian memoir of coming out of the closet in the face of intolerance is poignant in its detail

Sharif D Rangnekar

· Feb 11, 2019 · 08:30 am

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· Dec 05, 2018 · 06:30 am

Kuldip Nayar (1923-2018) revealed unpopular truths about politicians and power brokers in his memoir

Kuldip Nayar

· Aug 23, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How Joan Didion’s ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ made a writer working on her memoir think of death

Manjiri Indurkar

· Aug 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The age of autofiction is here: How do writers feel about writing novels from their own lives?

Shashank Bhargava

· Aug 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

There’s much more to Reham Khan’s memoir than Imran Khan’s scandals

Devapriya Roy

· Jul 21, 2018 · 08:30 am

What is it like to barely survive a chemical attack on your entire town?

Kaseem Eid

· Jul 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A haunting new memoir offers an unflinchingly honest account of living with chronic illness

Srinidhi Raghavan

· Jul 06, 2018 · 08:30 am

Saeed Mirza interprets the political history of India and the world through personal stories

Saeed Akhtar Mirza

· May 29, 2018 · 08:30 am

Welcome to the femoir: bestselling books that celebrate female success

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· May 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

In a new book, Nalini Jameela breaks taboos and writes about her romantic encounters as a sex worker

Nalini Jameela

· May 16, 2018 · 08:30 am

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s prison diary offers an intimate slice of India’s freedom struggle

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

· Apr 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

This devastating book by a palliative care specialist is necessary reading to understand death

Jaya Bhattacharji Rose

· Mar 25, 2018 · 05:30 pm

This book could have told a brilliant story of how India’s secular narrative was changed. It doesn’t

Saif Mahmood

· Mar 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Get her, beat her’: Taslima Nasrin recalls how she was attacked in Dhaka for ‘Lajja’

Taslima Nasrin

· Mar 02, 2018 · 08:30 am

On the road with Rajiv Gandhi (who often drove his car himself): A journalist remembers

Suman Chattopadhyay

· Feb 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘Just by being this person very loudly, I am breaking down hierarchies’: Gurmehar Kaur

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Feb 13, 2018 · 08:30 am