Remembering Gulshan Rai of Diamond Comics: The man who gave us Chacha Chaudhary

How did Diamond Comics become a hit with readers across a vast range of age, location, affluence, and levels of literacy?

Arunava Banerjee

· Jan 21, 2023 · 08:30 am

Farewell to bookseller Mirza Yaseen Baig of Midland, who always greeted readers with recommendations

The founder of Delhi’s Midland bookshop died on Thursday at the age of 94.

Sayantan Ghosh

· Nov 26, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Temsula Ao (1945-2022): The Naga writer’s literary legacy covers more than her stories and poems

Temsula Ao died on 9 October, 2022, at the age of 76.

Chitra Ahanthem

· Oct 15, 2022 · 08:30 am

Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) was one of the great voices of historical fiction – and so much more

The British author, twice the winner of the Booker Prize, died on Thursday, 22 September, at the age of 70.

Dinah Birch, The Conversation

· Sep 25, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Writer Javier Marías (1951-2022): ‘The world has become childish to an incomprehensible extent’

Javier Marías died on September 11 at age 70.

Various

· Sep 14, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Why writer Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) never stopped trying to change the world

As her body of work shows us, witnessing human experience through the lens of class and power is a potent teacher.

Barbara Pocock, The Conversation

· Sep 10, 2022 · 07:30 pm

‘A dignified son of the Western Ghats’: A tribute to Narayan, one of India’s early Adivasi writers

A winner of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Narayan died on August 16, 2022, at the age of 81.

Catherine Thankamma

· Aug 27, 2022 · 05:30 pm

The subversive genius of Marathi writer and rationalist Nanda Khare (1946-2022)

His anti-hero Maratha protagonist in ‘Antajichi Bakhar’ disrupted the patriotic trope, while in Udya, he imagined life in the not-so-distant dystopian future.

Prachi Deshpande

· Jul 31, 2022 · 08:30 am

Publisher and editor Nandita Aggarwal (1964-2022): Colleagues, writers remember a warm human being

Nandita Aggarwal, who spent 32 years working in English language publishing in India, died on June 30.

Sreemoyee Piu Kundu

· Jul 10, 2022 · 12:30 pm

What made Maria Aurora Couto write books that were deeply political and heartbreakingly personal?

Jerry Pinto recounts an unusual friendship with the grand writer of Goa, who died on January 14 at the age of 85.

Jerry Pinto

· Jan 30, 2022 · 08:30 am

Afra Bukhari (1938-2022): The short story writer from Pakistan was among the last of a generation

The writer died in Lahore on 2 January, 2022 at the age of 83.

Raza Naeem

· Jan 23, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Why writer Maria Aurora Couto (1937-2022) was the grand dame of letters and culture of Goa

The author of ‘Filomena’s Daughters’ and ‘Goa: A Daughter’s Diary’ died on January 14 at the age of 85.

Peter Ronald deSouza

· Jan 16, 2022 · 08:30 am