The book begins with an insightful analysis of the turn taken by various ancient cultures when their tales that had…
The musings of a dying person can simultaneously be mundane, magical and mysterious.
From Midnight’s Children to Quichotte, his novelistic career can be read as a statement against realism and a search for…
In narrating the untold lives of various women, Jeet Thayil accords them what he thinks is their rightful position in…
A coming-of-age novel about a man’s perennial confrontation with his parents and ghosts of the past
Rushdie takes readers on a literary pilgrimage, bringing to life the art of storytelling and a writer’s quest to ‘approach…
Documenting attempts to scale the mighty mountains of the world brings forth a passionate set of stories.
A celebration of women, their many moods and temperaments
An aspiring cricketer-turned-historian, Guha pens a passionate ode to the game and his undimmed love for it
In this novel, women’s lives told with sobriety manage to hold the reader till the very end
The novel is a disappointment, to say the least, but here’s a question: had this novel been written not in…
Nasreen writes about the inescapable loneliness of being in exile in a sequel to Lajja
Entering complicated territory, TM Krishna examines the role of caste in Carnatic music through the prism of a veda vadyam
Reading Jeet Thayil’s latest novel Low, Johan Sebastian Bach’s iconic composition The Chaconne suddenly came to mind.
Ananthamurthy was also fascinated by Ram Manohar Lohia’s creative interpretation of Indian myths and politics.
The theatre of conflict, a witness to treacherous ploys, perched in a valley between the Hindukush mountains, is also an…
The narrative that develops through soliloquies delves deep into their inner world.
A friend of Shalini’s father, he makes a sudden appearance at the end and has unexpected, perhaps unwarranted, sex with…
