‘Move-able Feasts’: How Susmita Basu and Kunal Basu celebrate life in food, travel, and love

From the cover and dust jacket to the photographs and chapter titles, the book is a thoughtful tribute to their long companionship and bonding over food.

Rituparna Roy

· Aug 14, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Celebrations and bloodbaths, joy and doubt: A new book asks 15 elderly Indians about August 15, 1947

Stories from the first Independence Day are recollected 75 years later in Veena Venugopal’s new book ‘Independence Day’.

Sayari Debnath

· Aug 14, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Crimson Spring’ uses fiction to re-scrutinise the imperial ambitions behind Jallianwala Bagh

How a novel can tell the story of April 13, 1919, which forever altered Punjab and its people.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Aug 13, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Whispering Chinar’: These interlinked short stories go to the heart of male privilege and machismo

Ali Rohila’s story traverse a long period of time in the same setting to show what changes and what does not.

Chitra Ahanthem

· Aug 06, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Why Jhumpa Lahiri says translating herself is ‘bewildering, paradoxical, doomed from start’

In ‘Translating Myself and Others,’ the author examines the joys and challenges of traversing linguistic barriers, and how translation is natural to humanity.

Sayari Debnath

· Aug 06, 2022 · 08:30 am

Why NoViolet Bulawayo’s new Booker Prize-longlisted novel is an instant Zimbabwean classic

‘Glory’ out-Orwells ‘Animal Farm’, which it reminds readers of.

Tinashe Mushakavanhu, The Conversation

· Aug 04, 2022 · 05:30 pm

A new book on 12 experiments that changed the world sidelines the role of beautiful physics theory

‘While there is much to like about the book, I found it to be largely polemic and unhelpful.’

Sam Baron, The Conversation

· Aug 02, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘When Blackbirds Fly’ recounts the fight for Mizo independence amid horrors created by armed forces

Hannah Lalhanpuii’s debut novel falls under the literary genre of ‘terror lore’, a genre unique to Mizo literature.

Veewon Thokchom

· Jul 31, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Either/Or’: Harvard student Selin’s adventures continue in Elif Batuman’s sequel to ‘The Idiot’

Selin, starting her sophomore year at Harvard, has recently returned from teaching English in the Hungarian countryside.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Jul 30, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Why be a ‘superwoman’? The syndrome that is secretly killing the middle-class Indian woman

Women have become ‘co-breadwinners’, but when will it be Indian men’s turn to become ‘co-carers’?

Sayari Debnath

· Jul 30, 2022 · 08:30 am

In ‘Shirt Ka Teesra Button’, author and actor Manav Kaul paints a picture of diffident boyhood

The Hindi novel poignantly describes a seemingly quaint village and the multitude of not-so-quaint stories nestled within it.

Neerad Pandharipande

· Jul 23, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Humour and unease, irony and truth meet effortlessly in the short stories of ‘Ruffled Feathers’

V Sanjay Kumar’s collection of short fiction infuses romance and charm into everyday life.

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Jul 23, 2022 · 08:30 am