Shekhar, 33, is a novelist and works as a doctor in Pakur, Jharkhand.

September 07, 2025 05:30 IST
I am at peace when it rains outside at night and I am tucked in bed. I feel everything is alright and nothing bad can touch me. But then, that is my privilege speaking.
Sat, Sep 06, 2025
August 27, 2025 17:35 IST
In both the unsettling films set in two very different contexts, horror stems not from monsters but from what society does to those who don’t conform
Wed, Aug 27, 2025
June 03, 2025 06:38 IST
I knew our neighbours, but in my family’s self-contained, self-reliant bubble, I never experienced neighbourliness
Tue, Jun 03, 2025
April 11, 2025 18:43 IST
As I work in Chandil today, at the local block-level health centre, things have not seemed to change much. Jamshedpur, about 26 km away, is still the first choice we have for referring patients whose cure is beyond our purview.
Fri, Apr 11, 2025
August 17, 2024 07:15 IST
The road ahead will not be easy, and we find that new shackles bind us, yet there is hope that things will get better
Sat, Aug 17, 2024
June 18, 2023 06:10 IST
Roses rule in Hindi film songs, maybe because roses are seen as a symbol of love. But other flowers too, can express love
Fri, Jun 16, 2023
August 25, 2022 10:23 IST
After 35 years of service, Gajadhar Babu returns home to his family. Will things pan out the way he had hoped?
Mon, Sep 01, 2025
November 14, 2021 06:20 IST
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar tells us the story of Tuyu, the fox, who ate everything that stood in its way – an egg, a bent old woman, a termite hill, and an egret
Tue, Jan 04, 2022
May 16, 2020 11:00 IST
As the COVID-19 pandemic makes work-from-home the new normal, a look at the workspaces of people who have always functioned in isolation -- writers. For Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, his workstation is where the writer and the doctor meet.
Fri, May 15, 2020
December 29, 2019 06:31 IST
A year-end party like none other.
Sun, Dec 29, 2019
September 22, 2019 06:00 IST
The film houses that I lived in (vicariously) and loved.
Sun, Sep 22, 2019
February 23, 2019 22:06 IST
Despite events and anecdotes being only hinted at, the reader can adequately imagine and understand the taboos and secrets the author has not exactly put in words.
Sat, Feb 23, 2019
June 29, 2016 00:02 IST
Jharkhand unshackles the tribal hero, but who will rescue its poorly-paid women health workers?
Wed, Jun 29, 2016
May 14, 2016 00:06 IST
The domicile policy in Jharkhand is a contentious issue
Sat, May 14, 2016


