Parvati Sharma

Sharma is the author of Akbar of Hindustan and Jahangir.

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Why women dominating Booker Prize shortlist is not the good news it seemsSubscriber Only

September 21,2024 00:30:05 AM

Privileged or otherwise, women are vulnerable to abuse; to being systematically excluded from positions of political, social and cultural power. But power, unlike intellectual nuance, operates in black and white — it aligns along clear-cut gender, race, religion, language and wealth axes.

Sat, Sep 21, 2024

From Kashmir to Palestine, Goliath is now DavidSubscriber Only

January 02,2024 07:00:26 AM

Today, in our political and social discourse, it is the stone-pelter who is the aggressor, whether Palestinian, Kashmiri or Kurd, and the great armies with their missiles and phosphorus gas, the great states with their rational courts and bureaucratic bulldozers, who are victims.

Tue, Jan 02, 2024

What is a writer’s role in an anxiety-ridden world?Subscriber Only

April 05,2020 11:30:47 AM

Writer Parvati Sharma on drawing inspiration from Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and his idea of the writer's life as the writer's duty

Sat, Apr 04, 2020

Red Letter YearsSubscriber Only

September 16,2018 06:00:12 AM

After her first kiss led to her first love letter, a writer found that over the years, ink and paper would offer her the freedom to love, one word at a time.

Sun, Sep 16, 2018

The Stuff of LifeSubscriber Only

October 14,2017 00:30:22 AM

More money and more things to buy with it must mean a country is doing well. But have we forgotten in the celebrations of excess that wealth is, in essence, dignity?

Sun, Oct 15, 2017

Laugh out louderSubscriber Only

August 28,2016 01:00:07 AM

If we were to deconstruct Pammi Aunty, the Punjabi mother-in-law who has taken over social media, what does it say about us?

Sun, Aug 28, 2016

Rereading To Kill a Mockingbird after the Charleston killingsSubscriber Only

July 12,2015 01:00:34 AM

Whether or not the new Harper Lee novel disappoints, it is impossible to forget what her first novel meant to millions of readers. Author Parvati Sharma turns its pages again to find old friends, new meanings and questions for a more troubled time.

Sun, Jul 12, 2015