Indira Parthasarathys Ver Pattru: Caught between ones roots and student politics
Indira Parthasarathys novel explores student activisms decline in post-Independence Tamil Nadu through Kesavans journey
Gulbadan Begum was Bbars daughter; she was asked by her nephew Akbar to write her memories of the reigns early years
Another industry hit by global war The US-Israel-Iran conflict is now disrupting raw material supply and impacting Indias 8,000-crore condom manufacturing industry.
R. Parthasarathys best-known work is the 1977 book-length poem Rough Passage
Daily Quiz: on John Steinbeck who has been called a giant of American letter
American writer John Steinbeckwas born on February 27, 1902. Here is a quiz on the author who has been called a giant of American letters
Noted Bengali author Sankar dies at 93
Mani Sankar Mukhopadhays novel Chowringee captured the complexities of urban life and society
Letters off the wall: Exploring Varsha Seshans novel and career
Friendship can happen in the most wholesome, and sometimes, the most interesting ways possible. Varsha Seshan -- through the pages of her novel The Wall Friends Club --- explores a one of a kind friendship: one exchanged in letters.
In conversation with Barbara Kingsolver, author of Demon Copperhead
At the Kolkata Literary Meet, the Pulitzer-winning author discusses the role of literature in cultivating compassion, writingDemon, and her new book
Mark Tullys India stories, talking to George Saunders, Anthony Hopkins memoir and more
Interview | Booker Prize-winningauthor George Saunders on his new novel,Vigil
A complex satire of corporate greed and moral culpability, Vigil is the authors first novel in nearly a decade
Technology trouble is a light term that can be used to describe the idea of this subgenre!
Shobhaa De on intimacy, pleasure, and the conversations India avoids
Shobhaa De questioned Indias enduring discomfort with intimacy, urging a shift from silence and instruction to dialogue and agency
Festschrift for Mahasweta Devi: three books by marginalised voices
In her centenary year Mahasweta Devi would have turned 100 today we read three writers, Sushila Takbhaure, Rakshit Sonawane and Mayyu Ali, who chronicle their lives of oppression. Their stories would have struck a chord with a writer who always kept an eye out for the dispossessed
The dark blue of indigo, which was related to the Champaran Satyagraha, soon faded from memory. It needed Ambedkar to bring it back into the public imagination
