August 31, 2025 2:23 pm
In The White Book, Nobel laureate Han Kang creates an imagined life for her sister through little anecdotes, contemplating what kind of person she would have grown up to be and the mundane things she might have experienced.
July 02, 2020 4:13 pm
Kaifi Azmi’s writings on love and rebellion continue to bedazzle.
June 08, 2019 8:18 am
The layers upon layers of Raj Kamal Jha’s new novel dress the collective wound of a nation
June 08, 2019 1:35 am
In Beyond the Boulevard, Aditi Sriram offers a deeper look at this quaint little town — aspects of which, the average tourist might catch a glimpse of as she speeds down the narrow streets on a hired bike.
June 09, 2019 10:21 am
Perhaps the most debated and certainly the most divisive, “movement” in modern Bengali poetry is that of the Hungry Generation, whose founders and followers were labelled “Hungryalists”.
June 08, 2019 1:36 am
An intriguing debut novel that explores the toxic remains of the American dream
October 25, 2014 12:16 pm
A book with rare photographs and anecdotes highlights the divide between Indian soldiers and their European counterparts during WW I
October 25, 2014 12:20 pm
An old-fashioned novel that wavers between satire and sentimentality
October 25, 2014 12:32 pm
A giddy, freewheeling, genre-switching literary confection
September 08, 2014 3:22 pm
A human rights activist writes about the five years he spent in the Nagpur Central Jail on false charges of being a Maoist.




