Why is liberalism failing? A new book asking this question sidelines key causes and concerns

Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s book doesn’t entertain the idea that the primary appeal of liberalism was always its usefulness in rationalising structural inequality.

Supriya Nair

· Yesterday · 08:30 am

Eat, drink and be moderate: Charaka advised the good life, not an assortment of pills

‘Charaka Samhita’ frowned neither on eating the meats of all animals, nor on drinking wine or even smoking of herbs, so long as they were done right.

Manish Mukul Ghosh

· Yesterday · 07:00 am

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

Eleven personal stories of love in different forms, beginnings and endings.

Devapriya Roy

· Jun 16, 2018 · 07:00 am

A new and varied collection of short stories is a much-needed addition to Tibetan literature

With a mix of themes and voices, ‘Old Demons, New Deities’ challenges conventional depictions of Tibetans in English-language writing.

John Butler

· Jun 15, 2018 · 05:30 pm

In this old-new book of two Telugu novellas, horse-men and Sanskrit scholars take on modernity

New translations of Telugu writer Viswanadha Satyanarayana’s ‘Ha Ha Hu Hu’ and ‘Vishnu Sharma Learns English’.

Jai Arjun Singh

· Jun 10, 2018 · 07:00 am

A scary novel without ghosts in it: Jhumpa Lahiri’s translation of Domenico Starnone’s ‘Trick’

‘They’re kids. Come on.’ Or is there more to it?

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Two novellas reacquaint us with the finest Urdu writer of our time, Intizar Husain

With ‘Day’ and ‘Dastan’ Intizar Husain rewrites the Partition without violence, gauging its impact on people.

Annie Zaidi

· Jun 09, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Like its subject, Yoko Tawada’s ‘The Emissary’ is hallucinatory and contaminated

The novel is a pointer to a post-disaster dystopian Japan. So what’s new? Plenty, in fact.

Brian Haman

· Jun 05, 2018 · 05:30 pm

And you thought it would be easy to give up your city life and become a farmer?

In ‘How I Became A Farmer’s Wife’, Yashodhara Lal writes a part-memoir, part-fiction, wholly funny book.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Jun 03, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Can the new college graduate be T-shaped? This is not a facetious question

Are we seeing the birth of the ‘artscience’ graduate, with both depth and breadth in education?

Devapriya Roy

· Jun 02, 2018 · 05:30 pm

How the women of the Mughal Empire ruled without being monarchs

Ira Mukhoty’s ‘Daughters Of The Sun’ tries to overwrite the male-centric history of Babur and his successors.

Supriya Nair

· Jun 02, 2018 · 03:30 pm

How many possible lives does a woman give up? Anuradha Roy’s new novel asks the vital question

Captivating, yet incomplete in parts, ‘All The Lives We Never Lived’ explores the freedoms a woman does not get.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jun 02, 2018 · 07:00 am