
September 03, 2015 00:00 IST
As they sit on daily judgement, they reveal their insecurity about their own paths to power — and a distrust of the outsider.
Thu, Sep 03, 2015
August 30, 2015 02:30 IST
Anjum Hasan’s fiction inhabits these city limits. Her characters are people uncomfortable in the swim of the big city, caught often between nostalgia and self-discovery.
Sun, Aug 30, 2015
August 02, 2015 01:00 IST
There is strength in the interior life of an introvert and an ability to break free of the herd.
Sun, Aug 02, 2015
July 26, 2015 01:00 IST
In her new book, writer Amrita Shah looks at how violence and development shaped Ahmedabad’s encounter with 21st century modernity.
Sun, Jul 26, 2015
July 08, 2015 02:00 IST
Amartya Sen speaks about his assessment of Modi's first year as PM, researching gender in the 1960s, his love for Sanskrit literature, and what judo can teach those who frame social policy.
Wed, Jul 08, 2015
June 07, 2015 01:00 IST
In her latest novel, Anuradha Roy continues to imagine new lands into being.
Sun, Jun 07, 2015
June 03, 2015 00:18 IST
Amitav Ghosh's The Flood of Fire speaks to the present like an oracle from the past - about empire, economics and the heroism of ordinary people. He talked to Amrita Dutta:
Wed, Jun 03, 2015
May 31, 2015 01:00 IST
Writer Anuja Chauhan on learning to laugh at the many absurdities of urban India and why her leading ladies can’t help being feisty.
Sun, May 31, 2015
May 09, 2015 00:00 IST
Nobel laureate and feminist writer Doris Lessing died in 2013 at the age of 94. In her will written in 2009, she asked Michael Holroyd, the biographer of George Bernard Shaw, to write the story of her life.
Sat, May 09, 2015
May 05, 2015 02:09 IST
Organised groups are obstructing the work or ‘hijacking’ aid material to Nepal midway.
Tue, May 05, 2015
April 18, 2015 03:52 IST
Siddharth Chowdhury makes a comeback with a collection of short stories that capture the essence of middle-class life in hypermasculine cultures.
Sat, Apr 18, 2015
February 21, 2015 04:42 IST
The village in Pakistani writer Ali Akbar Natiq’s remarkable collection of stories is a violent, unforgiving and acutely real place.
Sat, Feb 21, 2015
February 11, 2015 02:37 IST
At the nearby MGM Metropolitan Mall, chartered accountant Praveen Khandelwal was bewildered by this mammoth victory.
Wed, Feb 11, 2015
January 31, 2015 18:00 IST
The urn in which Godse lives is brought out every year on November 15 for a ceremony organised by the Godses.
Sat, Jan 31, 2015
January 30, 2015 11:50 IST
Here we retrace Nathuram Godse's journey from a small town in Maharashtra to being the man who killed Gandhi.
Fri, Jan 30, 2015
January 30, 2015 02:48 IST
His son, Upendra Parchure, is 82 years old now, and lives as a recluse. A lock nearly always hangs on the gate to the two-storied house.
Fri, Jan 30, 2015
January 29, 2015 03:13 IST
Narayan Apte and others had launched the first of two attempts on Mahatma Gandhi’s life in January 1948.
Tue, Nov 16, 2021
January 28, 2015 04:39 IST
To ward off a perceived curse, his mother had his nose pierced with a nath and thus he carried in his name, Nathuram.
Fri, Jan 30, 2015
January 10, 2015 03:46 IST
Through its story of love, abandonment and search, Janice Pariat’s debut novel performs an act of rescue.
Sat, Jan 10, 2015
November 30, 2014 00:50 IST
From the age of 13, when he smashed up a classmate in a school brawl, he has been in and out of Delhi’s juvenile homes.
Sun, Nov 30, 2014
November 01, 2014 02:15 IST
The grand old man of Urdu literature, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, on a new translation of his stories, reinstating the past in the present, and why India can’t afford to forget.
Sat, Nov 01, 2014
October 23, 2014 00:17 IST
Game the system for love, money and a Bollywoodesque happy ending
Thu, Oct 23, 2014
October 18, 2014 00:28 IST
Australian author and 2014 Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan speaks about writing a war novel without acrimony.
Tue, Oct 21, 2014
October 04, 2014 03:52 IST
Amit Chaudhuri’s newest is a wry, funny novel about two heroes with bodily functions.
Mon, Oct 06, 2014
September 07, 2014 01:00 IST
The shadow of sexism that lurks in 24x7 news channels in India and the demands it makes of its female anchors.
Sun, Sep 07, 2014

