A romance with the pitch: Ramachandra Guha’s latest is an intimate love letter for cricket
An aspiring cricketer-turned-historian, Guha pens a passionate ode to the game and his undimmed love for it
The promise of prose
In this novel, women’s lives told with sobriety manage to hold the reader till the very end
Book Review | A Burning — A perfunctory and sweeping view of India minus nuances and its complexities
The novel is a disappointment, to say the least, but here’s a question: had this novel been written not in English but in any Indian language, and first published in India instead of the US, what kind of media space would i
Shameless: Taslima Nasreen writes about the inescapable loneliness of being in exile in a sequel to Lajja
Nasreen writes about the inescapable loneliness of being in exile in a sequel to Lajja
Book Review- Sebastian and Sons: A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers; Discordant notes
Entering complicated territory, TM Krishna examines the role of caste in Carnatic music through the prism of a veda vadyam
Book Review: Jeet Thayil’s new novel ‘Low’ is a poem of nothingness
Reading Jeet Thayil’s latest novel Low, Johan Sebastian Bach’s iconic composition The Chaconne suddenly came to mind.
A life less ordinary: Musings on Indian society and politics
Ananthamurthy was also fascinated by Ram Manohar Lohia’s creative interpretation of Indian myths and politics.
Book Review- Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul; Subtle dive into history
The theatre of conflict, a witness to treacherous ploys, perched in a valley between the Hindukush mountains, is also an ancient city with a rich history and culture that have been badly mutated over the period.
Prelude to a Riot | A promise of a novel that falters with its narrative
The narrative that develops through soliloquies delves deep into their inner world.
The Far Field | A mature debut that revels in its simplicity and subtlety
A friend of Shalini’s father, he makes a sudden appearance at the end and has unexpected, perhaps unwarranted, sex with her before betraying her.
A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There | Significant historical work that needs to be approached afresh
Four years on, reading its English translation, A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There, by Daisy Rockwell, I realise that I did well to restrict myself to a few polite sentences. For, not only Rockwell’s translation has transforme
First They Erased Our Name | A Rohingya’s chilling memoir
A Rohingya’s chilling memoir brings forth anxieties and phobias faced by many across the globe in the name of nationalism, race and religion
Permanent Record: The memoir of the most famous whistleblower of our times – Edward Snowden
Modern pollution is what Snowden terms the records of our lives imprinted in various devices that surround us
Quichotte: Don, in search of the novel
Exactly four centuries later, Salman Rushdie arrives with his fourteenth novel, Quichotte, a variation on Cervantes’s masterpiece.
Babu Bangladesh – book review: A missing protogonist, a dead author and a nation in turmoil
Born in the mid-1970s, a period when his newly-born country Bangladesh was undergoing a violent turmoil, Numair Atif Choudhury went on to obtain a PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Book Review: Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh tackles climate change in his latest novel, but the burden of superfluous details and lack of ideas leave the reader unmoved
Book Review – Battling for India: A Citizen’s Reader by Githa Hariharan and Salim Yusufji
Edited by Githa Hariharan and Salim Yusufji, Battling For India: A Citizen’s Reader is a collection of articles, essays, interviews and poems by writers and intellectuals during the period to address these concerns.
Journeys | Life and work of a writer who left mark on several genres
Going through a selection of Ramanujan’s diary, one wonders not only at the entries included, but also about the ones left out
Mouth Full of Blood| An exploration of psychological causes that push women to the margins
Sexism & racism in society apart, Toni Morrison’s new book is also an exploration of psychological causes that push women to the margins
The Fate of Butterflies| Novel gives us warning of the ominous times ahead
Nayantara Sahgal’s new novel attempts to give us a warning of the ominous times ahead
Black Leopard and Red Wolf: The ambitious novel falters along its edge
The ambitious new novel of Booker-winner author Marlon James falters along its edges.
Radical Ambedkar: Analysing divergent personas of the leader
The book has been edited by academicians Suraj Yengde and Anand Teltumbde.
Book Review: ‘killing Commendatore’ by Haruki Murakami
Famed for creating mystical worlds, Haruki Murakami may leave the reader dissatisfied with his latest novel about a portrait artist
Listen To Me: A powerful defence and mirror of women writing in India
The book also has some insightful episodes about the life of women writers and the subtle discriminations they face at various levels.
Book review: Mainstream or marginalised?
Two books focusing on the Maoist zone try to decode the dynamics of the region and its tribes
Book review: Looking for the nation: Towards another idea of India by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Another book on the idea of a nation serves as a reminder for course correction.
Book Review: Amit Dutta’s ‘Invisible Webs: An Art Historical Inquiry into the Life and Death of Jangarh Singh Shyam’
A book charts the flawed trajectory of modern Indian art, with a focus on the most famous suicide of a painter in independent India.
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