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February 21, 2020 20:04 IST
Conversations around mental health are often stymied by the lack of appropriate vocabulary in vernacular languages
Sat, Feb 22, 2020September 22, 2019 06:01 IST
At the Hugo Awards this year — arguably one of the world’s most prestigious awards for speculative and science fiction — a fanfiction collective walked off with an award. Is this the moment of recognition that the oft-maligned genre had been waiting for?
Sun, Sep 22, 2019September 21, 2019 01:30 IST
Cow and Company by Parashar Kulkarni provides that fodder in the form of an epic battle of the ages between chewing gum, which the British Chewing Gum Company wants to introduce in India, and “the empire of paan — the sun never truly set on it”.
Sat, Sep 21, 2019July 20, 2019 11:00 IST
The novel’s dedication to portraying the fragility of life is evident in its complexities. Most happy moments are bittersweet, no emotion is fully evident, no motive is completely understandable.
Sat, Jul 20, 2019June 08, 2019 00:54 IST
An intriguing debut novel that explores the toxic remains of the American dream
Sat, Jun 08, 2019May 25, 2019 10:39 IST
Githa Hariharan’s new novel is an angry, intimate look at systemic social oppressions
Sat, May 25, 2019April 13, 2019 07:03 IST
Milk Teeth lives up to its title in a number of ways — it alludes to that innocent first romance which often evolves into something a lot more complicated, the feelings around a first home that everyone must come to terms with and the process of reconciling with who you are and what you want.
Sat, Apr 13, 2019February 02, 2019 02:30 IST
An irreverent if slightly predictable story on the problems that the young of every species face.
Sat, Feb 02, 2019January 05, 2019 01:34 IST
An exquisite tale of the push-and-pull of desire in a world that is in constant flux.
Sat, Jan 05, 2019December 08, 2018 00:09 IST
Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi examines love and friendship in this unusual illustrated novel
Sat, Dec 08, 2018October 20, 2018 02:08 IST
Murakami’s latest traces the surreal contours of a listless painter’s life and efforts to find inspiration and himself.
Sat, Oct 20, 2018September 29, 2018 01:26 IST
Feroz Rather’s debut collection of short stories is a record of humanity in a place where very little of it survives.
Sat, Sep 29, 2018September 17, 2018 00:33 IST
Section 377 verdict may have decriminalised homosexuality. Now, a transformation in society and religion demands a nuanced approach.
Mon, Sep 17, 2018August 25, 2018 00:59 IST
Shandana Minhas’s novella, Rafina, falls flat because of its lack of pace and the singular unlikeability of its lead
Sat, Aug 25, 2018July 10, 2018 00:53 IST
Draft classification lists it as a mental health condition, critics find it premature
Tue, Jul 10, 2018July 07, 2018 00:23 IST
A novel on Dostoevsky’s relationship with his stenographer, Anna Grigoryevna.
Sat, Jul 07, 2018May 05, 2018 00:43 IST
Sight, in the literal and metaphorical sense, is central to KR Meera’s new novel
Sat, May 05, 2018February 10, 2018 00:45 IST
If I Had to Tell it Again, a memoir by Gayathri Prabhu, shatters this silence with an intimate examination of the relationship between the author and her late father.
Sat, Feb 10, 2018December 30, 2017 03:30 IST
The book’s triumph is largely due to the anecdotes scattered within it in abundance, with scarcely a few pages passing by without some interesting nugget of information cropping up.
Sat, Dec 30, 2017December 25, 2017 00:56 IST
From a cantankerous old miser to a girl lighting matches to stave off the cold, Christmas has produced enduring, if sometimes unlikely, titans of literature
Mon, Dec 25, 2017November 18, 2017 00:02 IST
For the initiated, there is something all-encompassing about the name ‘Madras’ — stitched together by millions of narratives, the city has perennially been on the cusp of tradition and modernity, warmth and cruelty, glamour and grime.
Sat, Nov 18, 2017November 12, 2017 00:56 IST
As I continued to read and talk to people about the sea, it baffled me that one thing could have so many facets to it. But with this bafflement came a desire to understand, and my hostility faded to the background.
Sun, Nov 12, 2017October 21, 2017 03:36 IST
The strength of Bombay Fever is the lack of a central protagonist, with a sufficiently broad narrative vantage point.
Sat, Oct 21, 2017September 09, 2017 00:25 IST
Orhan Pamuk’s latest novel, perhaps his most accessible one to date, draws succour from father-son myths in Western and Eastern cultural traditions
Sat, Sep 09, 2017September 08, 2017 00:15 IST
A look at some coffee houses in Delhi that are doing things differently, as well as those that continue to perfect the basics
Fri, Sep 08, 2017