Confessions In Reading

What reading Farrukh Dhondy’s ‘Poona Company’ means today to a Pune resident

‘I saw names and places I had grown up amidst etched in inexorable print, and suddenly, they became important.’

Neha Mehrotra
· Aug 08, 2021 · 01:52 pm
Why sadness and reading Sylvia Plath go hand in hand for some millennials

Does it have something to do with the process of growing out of teenage girlhood and into respectable adulthood?

Yamini Krishnan
· Jul 05, 2020 · 08:30 am
‘How I inherited scholar Meera Kosambi’s books through several degrees of separation and intimacy’

A college teacher finds himself with a collection of books that belonged to someone he only knew slightly.

Kedar A Kulkarni
· Oct 20, 2019 · 07:30 am

Video

Being gay: how books and reading saved my life

‘I was 15 and confused. I was sure, but wanted to tell someone this time. Yet I couldn’t. I read The Bell Jar.’

Vivek Tejuja
· Mar 21, 2015 · 11:30 am