World Book Day reading: The end of a strange love affair in Mumbai

‘The Sea Sings at Night’, by Mimi Mondal, from ‘The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction’, edited by Tarun K Saint.

Mimi Mondal

· Apr 23, 2020 · 06:30 pm

World Book Day reading: How Farzana turned into Begum Samru, a dealmaker in the Mughal court

An excerpt from ‘The Women Who Ruled India: Leaders. Warriors. Icons’, by Archana Garodia Gupta.

Archana Garodia Gupta

· Apr 23, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Read at home: Mohammed Hanif’s stunning debut was a mordant satire on a Pakistani dictator’s death

‘Yes, sir, I was the one who got away.’

Hanif Mohammed

· Apr 22, 2020 · 08:30 am

Read at home: The unpublished epilogue to Anukrti Upadhyay’s novel ‘Bhaunri’

‘I grew curious too and wondered how things panned out after that rather cataclysmic ending.’

Anukrti Upadhyay

· Apr 17, 2020 · 08:30 am

Read at home: A poignant scene between a father and a daughter in Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction

An excerpt from ‘Unaccustomed Earth’, by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Jhumpa Lahiri

· Apr 16, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Read at home: Life and love under a lockdown in and around an Andaman prison during the British raj

An excerpt from ‘The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali’, a novel by Uzma Aslam Khan.

Uzma Aslam Khan

· Apr 14, 2020 · 05:30 pm

As Uddhav Thackeray pilots Maharashtra through Covid-19, a look at how he changed the Shiv Sena once

An except from ‘The Cousins Thackeray: Uddhav, Raj And The Shadow Of Their Senas’, by Dhaval Kulkarni.

Dhaval Kulkarni

· Apr 10, 2020 · 08:30 am

Read at home: In search of the man who called himself the Amitabh Bachchan of Alaska

An excerpt from ‘Searching For Home: Stories Of Indians Living Abroad’, by Simran Chawla.

Simran Chawla

· Apr 09, 2020 · 07:30 am

Read at home: In this fantasy story, ‘Death’ visits a young woman who has accosted him in the past

An excerpt from the story The Girl Who Haunted Death by Nikita Deshpande, from ‘Magical Women’, edited by Sukanya Venkatraghavan.

Nikita Deshpande

· Apr 08, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Read at home: How this venture capital company missed the chance to invest in BookMyShow

In this excerpt from ‘The Moonshot Game: Adventures of an Indian Venture Capitalist’, Rahul Chandra recounts an investment his company regretted not making.

Rahul Chandra

· Apr 07, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Read at home: After the apocalypse, a woman meets a man. Sparks might fly

An excerpt from ‘Contingency Plans For The Apocalypse And Other Possible Situations’, by SB Divya.

SB Divya

· Apr 02, 2020 · 03:30 pm

Read at home: Meet Amma Bi and Jumman in this short story by actor Pankaj Kapur

An excerpt from ‘Dopehri’ by Pankaj Kapur, translated from the Hindustani by Rahul Soni.

Pankaj Kapur

· Mar 30, 2020 · 05:30 pm