Ashutosh Bhardwaj
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.
Book review: Ramachandra Guha’s ‘Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World’
A book that reveals the many shades of the Mahatma, the people associated with him and the making of an independent India.
Book review: Gurcharan Das’s ‘Kama: The Riddle of Desire’
In Gurcharan Das’ latest, philosophy meets fiction in concurrent narratives that examine human desires across civilisations.
Book Review- “The Disobedient Indian: Towards a Gandhian Philosophy of Dissent” focuses on how Mahatma Gandhi led anti-colonial struggle on the plank of disobedience
A powerful moral and philosophical argument for disobedience as a mandatory duty of every citizen in a democracy.
Book Review-‘Ninety-Seven Poems’: Poems in new volume of Terribly Tiny Tales seem to be products of first draft
The poems in this book hardly betray any artistic ambition to survive for posterity or find a place in the annals of poetry. Their oath is to the present moment; they wish to be read, reviewed and examined only in the context
Poetry of loss: Translations of two Urdu novellas bring forth the erosion of memories of a civilisation
Hussain’s Day and Dastan, a translation of his two Urdu novellas by Nishat Zaidi and Alok Bhalla, confirms his reputation as a major storyteller of the subcontinent.
Women in arms: Poignant tales of female militants
One reason that India has seen several insurgencies in the past 70 years is because they secured the participation of women in large numbers.
A portrait of Shankaracharya: Author Pavan Varma charts the thinker’s life and metaphysics in a lucid form
Adi Shankaracharya is among the most profound and perplexing figures of Indian civilisation
Memoir of a sex slave: Autobiography of Yazidi woman enslaved by ISIS
The autobiography of a Yazidi woman enslaved by the ISIS is a comment on the abyss in which human civilisation finds itself in.
Book review – Dispossessed: Stories from India’s Margins
Questioning privilege: A book presents field accounts of scholars as they encounter a life of deprivation that is completely and achingly different from their lives
Unsung histories: Restless Waters of the Ichhamati
A translation of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Ichhamati brings forth stories of the commoners that lived in 19th-century Bengal.
Book Review: Devi – The Goddess of India
With each of the 52 hymns he composed for the Ganga, the river rose one step by another before its waters touched the feet of the couple, purified them and carried them away in its eternal embrace.
Love and longing: A promising collection of poems
Love is often the nucleus of initial attempts at poetry by poets.
Jasoda: Dry as desert novel that lacks fire to achieve ambitions
Sadly, Jasoda does not betray the maturity of a late work. It does not prick you. Like the land it is located in, it’s mostly arid.
Book review: The Book of Chocolate Saints: Jeet Thayil’s work depicts male artist’s authority, touches heights of inventiveness not seen in Indian novels
“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can’t hold on to her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.” So wrote Roberto Bolano in The Savage Detectives, which Jeet Thayil’s new novel The Book of Chocolate Saints
Threat of the past: A dispassionate view of a dystopian world where memory is the enemy
A dispassionate view of a dystopian world where memory is the enemy
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