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Sonali Prasad’s debut novel Glass Bottom sacrifices story for styleSubscriber Only

September 29, 2024 05:30 IST

In this time of rapid environmental change, climate fiction is a genre that is increasingly gaining currency, even if its practitioners are still finding their way around the scope of the Anthropocene.

Sat, Sep 28, 2024

Behind Mamata Banerjee’s failure to read the protests, the establishment’s unfamiliarity with its new languageSubscriber Only

September 16, 2024 07:55 IST

Whether in power or in Opposition, it is in her role as the underdog that the West Bengal CM has been most at ease. But she now finds herself at an impasse. Can she find a way out of it?

Mon, Sep 16, 2024

Women’s rights activists contend that it only serves as a populist knee-jerk reaction that ignores the larger implications of such violence.

What we don’t talk about when we talk about rapeSubscriber Only

August 27, 2024 13:00 IST

Not the power asymmetries that silence women and are at the heart of all sexual violence, nor the masculine, majoritarian language of the law that puts the burden of guilt back on women

Thu, Aug 29, 2024

Upgrades are an integral part of keeping up with changes in academia.

From ‘invaders’ to ‘Ujjayini meridian’ — the disservice textbook revisions do to studentsSubscriber Only

July 27, 2024 18:30 IST

Even if one were to put away moral considerations, half-knowledge is dangerous preparation for the competitive realm of higher education. In particular, when it comes to the sciences, always aspirational for India’s middle class, it is unhelpful to remain divorced from standardised global discourses on it

Sun, Jul 28, 2024

In dark secret about Alice Munro, the moral fallibility of our literary idolsSubscriber Only

July 09, 2024 20:02 IST

Weeks after Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro's death, her daughter tells the story of abuse at the hands of Munro's husband — and the writer's silent acquiescence

Thu, Jul 11, 2024

Apple, Foxconn and married, working women — where’s the imaginary support system?Subscriber Only

June 27, 2024 19:52 IST

This failure is not that of the government or political parties alone. Far too many women are told that they are ‘fortunate’ to have families that ‘allow’ them to work outside or have partners who help around the house.

Sat, Jun 29, 2024

Women are at the core of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films: Does he do them justice, or is he only exploitative?Subscriber Only

May 24, 2024 16:23 IST

Indian Express' Paromita Chakrabarti and Pooja Pillai debate Bhansali's cinema and his feminism. Through their pieces, they offer not this-versus-that, but the best of both sides.

Fri, May 24, 2024

Sanjay Leela Bhansali focuses on women — he just doesn’t understand themSubscriber Only

May 24, 2024 07:00 IST

In Bhansali's films, male gaze masquerades as women’s aspiration and agency

Sun, May 26, 2024

Munro mapped this storied baggage without critique — she wrote not so much about her characters but as them, sharing the bitter taste of their disappointments, the sudden flares of resentment, and the illicit thrill of hope.

Reading Alice Munro is a visceral experience, like a conversation with an old friendSubscriber Only

May 17, 2024 07:07 IST

Munro knew the vagaries of human nature like few others. For readers, what mattered was that she made them feel seen, and heard

Fri, May 17, 2024

Bridgerton 3 and Penelope as its onlooker-outsider protagonist: When the wallflower bloomsSubscriber Only

May 12, 2024 07:05 IST

As a new season of the globally-acclaimed Regency-era romance Bridgerton arrives next week and the spotlight shifts to its onlooker-outsider protagonist, a look at the perks of being a wallflower.

Sun, May 12, 2024

With ‘Knife’, Salman Rushdie fights violence with the power of loveSubscriber Only

May 04, 2024 07:15 IST

Rushdie knows, with that strange, intuitive fatwa-defying, free-speech endorsing courage, that this is no way to die. That he would, instead, live in love

Sat, May 04, 2024

Amitava Kumar, The Yellow Book, pandemic, grief, travel, memoir

What Amitava Kumar’s The Yellow Book tells about the mind of a writerSubscriber Only

March 30, 2024 12:00 IST

Kumar’s new book explores what it means to be open to possibilities in an attention-deficit world

Sun, Mar 31, 2024

The truth is, vulnerability is built into the language of intimacy. Some vacillations are hard to resolve with the swipe of a finger into neat boxes of yes and no.

Tinder, Hinge and Netflix’s ‘One Day’ – the truth and lies of modern loveSubscriber Only

February 28, 2024 15:43 IST

When the heady dopamine rush settles down, love can meander and dither, exasperate and anchor. It recognises that people change or outgrow relationships. That the right people can meet at the wrong time

Thu, Feb 29, 2024

Lessons in Chemistry is dedicated to Garmus's mother (Credit: Serena Bolton)

‘I wanted to bring out the larger themes of chemistry, especially those that involve human interaction’: Bonnie Garmus, author, Lessons in ChemistrySubscriber Only

February 10, 2024 18:38 IST

The American writer on learning to thrive in a man's world, why experience, not age, counts, and her debut novel that became an unintended feminist manifesto

Sat, Feb 10, 2024

‘Ashoka was a king who was strong enough to be able to say I am sorry’: Patrick OlivelleSubscriber Only

December 28, 2023 11:21 IST

The academic on writing about the dichotomies of the Mauryan ruler and his enduring appeal

Thu, Dec 28, 2023

Jhumpa Lahiri: Identity is not a fixed entity, not something we should comfortably take for grantedSubscriber Only

December 23, 2023 15:32 IST

Jhumpa Lahiri on being an outsider everywhere, telling the other side of the Roman story in her new book Roman Stories and the importance of defending free speech

Sun, Dec 24, 2023

Paul Lynch wins the 2023 Booker: Ireland’s long tryst with the prizeSubscriber Only

November 29, 2023 17:51 IST

Since the inception of the Booker Prize in 1969, the Irish have indeed been the light in its literary sky. Here's how Paul Lynch, this year's winner, adds to the tradition.

Thu, Nov 30, 2023

At this online club, discover contemporary Japanese literature, comics & graphic novelsSubscriber Only

November 20, 2023 21:13 IST

In the decade that followed, with the proliferation and availability of international literature in translation, her access to Japanese literature had become easier.

Tue, Nov 21, 2023

Narayana Murthy just gave some very bad adviceSubscriber Only

October 28, 2023 20:35 IST

Yes, the work of nation building requires great discipline and dedication, but a 70-hour work week is a recipe for burnout — and discriminatory towards women in the workplace.

Tue, Oct 31, 2023

Writer Jon Fosse poses in Oslo, Norway December 8, 2015.

Nobel Prize in Literature: In Norwegian laureate Jon Fosse’s ‘slow prose’, shades of Ibsen and DerridaSubscriber Only

October 06, 2023 07:07 IST

While Fosse is today “one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognised for his prose”, the committee said.

Fri, Oct 06, 2023

It’s unfortunate that, whenever we hear the word ‘liberal’ these days, we think of an Anglophone group: Amit ChaudhuriSubscriber Only

September 19, 2023 18:24 IST

The writer on the failures of the liberals, the caveats against unreason contained in religious traditions and why athlete Neeraj Chopra’s mother Saroj Devi is an organic intellectual

Fri, Sep 22, 2023