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Namita Gokhale’s short fiction collection Life on Mars is an ode to women, mythology and desire
June 25, 2025 2:18 pm
Gokhale binds these stories together with the glue of women’s collective experiences. Women from all walks of life populate these tales — those who take lovers, widows, divorcees, good Indian wives, women battling cancer, depressed women, privileged women, women marked by sexual abuse and loneliness
‘One of the worst things to happen to a writer…’: Namita Gokhale's candid take as she releases 25th book
May 22, 2025 3:42 pm
Namita Gokhale’s latest collection, Life On Mars, assembles stories both old and new, some of which she revised with the help of longtime collaborator Ravi Singh.
''Never, Never Land’ reaches readers across generations': Namita Gokhale celebrates latest work entering 2024 Crossword Book Awards longlist
October 28, 2024 2:15 pm
“I have never seen writing as a career but as an essential part of life, like eating or sleeping,” Namita Gokhale said
Author Namita Gokhale, TMC MLA Bratya Basu among 20 winners of Sahitya Akademi Award 2021
December 31, 2021 11:48 am
The annual awards, given in 20 Indian languages, included seven books of poetry, two novels, five short stories, two plays, one book each of biography, autobiography, criticism and epic poetry.
'The Blind Matriarch': Namita Gokhale's next book to launch on September 27
September 07, 2021 11:51 am
The book, The Blind Matriarch, is a family saga that is "a clear-eyed chronicle of the tragedies of India's encounter with the coronavirus, the cynicism and despair that accompanied it, and the resilience and strength of the human spirit".
Author Namita Gokhale receives 7th Yamin Hazarika Woman of Substance Award
September 06, 2021 2:46 pm
Speaking during the ceremony, historian Yasmin Saikia of the Arizona State University said that history is no longer confined to great men but is also about great women
New book looks at Lutyens' Delhi politics and a family caught in the throes of change
February 03, 2021 5:37 pm
"Reading 'Equations' is like seeing the drama of a now lost time unfold before our eyes frame by frame," according to Udayan Mitra, publisher (literary) at HarperCollins India.
Lockdown Reading: Namita Gokhale on the way she is spending her days
April 20, 2020 5:06 pm
Lockdown Reading is a series where authors will enlist the books they are reading (or not) during this time. This week, Namita Gokhale shares the way she has been spending her days.
‘If journalists write the first draft of history from the ground, writers do it from a distance’
April 13, 2020 1:10 pm
Organisers Sanjoy Roy and writer Namita Gokhale on JLF LitFest’s new online series, ‘Brave New World’, and why writers will act as anchors in these times.
Few realise how vulnerable writers are: Namita Gokhale
January 23, 2020 12:21 am
Namita Gokhale on using the Jaipur Literature Festival as the setting of her latest novel, and how new templates need to be created.
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