Photos from ‘Schippeitaro’, a Japanese fairy tale about sinister dancing cats and a heroic dog

Superstitious Japanese believed that if cats lived too long, they would turn into monsters.

Yasuyo Ohtsuka

· Jan 03, 2019 · 08:30 pm

What colonial writing about Indian birds reveals about the British Raj

The wealth of British writing about birds doesn’t just tell us about the avian creatures but also about how they lived and interacted in India.

Jamil Urfi

· Dec 16, 2018 · 08:30 am

Pragmatism, Marxism, and a Western orientation: The three nodes of the Progressive Writers’ Movement

It operated in a doctrinal triangle that proved to be both a boon and a bane.

Syed Nomanul Haq

· Jul 16, 2017 · 09:30 pm

No one remembers Marie Corelli, the best-selling novelist of Victorian Britain

RK Narayan loved her. Her wild imagination would make any pulp-fiction writer blush.

Anu Kumar

· Dec 04, 2016 · 08:15 am

Shakespeare in India: How Indians saw and read the Bard a hundred years back

Francis Younghusband’s essay says 'Othello', 'The Merchant of Venice', and 'Romeo and Juliet' were the Bard's most-liked plays in the early 20th century.

Hedley Sutton

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Karen Waddell

· Sep 15, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Batwara vs Azaadi: How Indian and Pakistani writers viewed the Partition

The literary view was quite different from the two sides of the border formed in 1947.

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Aug 14, 2016 · 08:30 am

How Akbar came to love books though he never learnt to read

The Mughal emperor was an active patron of books, supporting writers, commissioning translations, and building a huge library.

Anu Kumar

· Nov 07, 2015 · 08:30 am