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February 21,2020 20:04:39 PM
Conversations around mental health are often stymied by the lack of appropriate vocabulary in vernacular languages
Sat, Feb 22, 2020
September 22,2019 06:01:19 AM
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, 2019
September 21,2019 01:30:04 AM
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, 2019
July 20,2019 11:00:53 AM
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, 2019
June 08,2019 00:54:43 AM
An intriguing debut novel that explores the toxic remains of the American dream
Sat, Jun 08, 2019
May 25,2019 10:39:45 AM
Githa Hariharan’s new novel is an angry, intimate look at systemic social oppressions
Sat, May 25, 2019
April 13,2019 07:03:24 AM
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, 2019
February 02,2019 02:30:18 AM
An irreverent if slightly predictable story on the problems that the young of every species face.
Sat, Feb 02, 2019
January 05,2019 01:34:18 AM
An exquisite tale of the push-and-pull of desire in a world that is in constant flux.
Sat, Jan 05, 2019
December 08,2018 00:09:10 AM
Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi examines love and friendship in this unusual illustrated novel
Sat, Dec 08, 2018
October 20,2018 02:08:56 AM
Murakami’s latest traces the surreal contours of a listless painter’s life and efforts to find inspiration and himself.
Sat, Oct 20, 2018
September 29,2018 01:26:27 AM
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, 2018
September 17,2018 00:33:53 AM
Section 377 verdict may have decriminalised homosexuality. Now, a transformation in society and religion demands a nuanced approach.
Mon, Sep 17, 2018
August 25,2018 00:59:06 AM
Shandana Minhas’s novella, Rafina, falls flat because of its lack of pace and the singular unlikeability of its lead
Sat, Aug 25, 2018
July 10,2018 00:53:54 AM
Draft classification lists it as a mental health condition, critics find it premature
Tue, Jul 10, 2018
July 07,2018 00:23:47 AM
A novel on Dostoevsky’s relationship with his stenographer, Anna Grigoryevna.
Sat, Jul 07, 2018
May 05,2018 00:43:38 AM
Sight, in the literal and metaphorical sense, is central to KR Meera’s new novel
Sat, May 05, 2018
February 10,2018 00:45:56 AM
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, 2018
December 30,2017 03:30:59 AM
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, 2017
December 25,2017 00:56:20 AM
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, 2017
November 18,2017 00:02:57 AM
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, 2017
November 12,2017 00:56:06 AM
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, 2017
October 21,2017 03:36:48 AM
The strength of Bombay Fever is the lack of a central protagonist, with a sufficiently broad narrative vantage point.
Sat, Oct 21, 2017
September 09,2017 00:25:19 AM
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, 2017
September 08,2017 00:15:20 AM
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



