In Gurcharan Das’ latest, philosophy meets fiction in concurrent narratives that examine human desires across civilisations.
A powerful moral and philosophical argument for disobedience as a mandatory duty of every citizen in a democracy.
The poems in this book hardly betray any artistic ambition to survive for posterity or find a place in the…
Hussain’s Day and Dastan, a translation of his two Urdu novellas by Nishat Zaidi and Alok Bhalla, confirms his reputation…
One reason that India has seen several insurgencies in the past 70 years is because they secured the participation of…
Adi Shankaracharya is among the most profound and perplexing figures of Indian civilisation
The autobiography of a Yazidi woman enslaved by the ISIS is a comment on the abyss in which human civilisation…
Questioning privilege: A book presents field accounts of scholars as they encounter a life of deprivation that is completely and…
A translation of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Ichhamati brings forth stories of the commoners that lived in 19th-century Bengal.
With each of the 52 hymns he composed for the Ganga, the river rose one step by another before its…
Love is often the nucleus of initial attempts at poetry by poets.
Sadly, Jasoda does not betray the maturity of a late work. It does not prick you. Like the land it…
“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can’t hold on to her with a poem. Not even…
A dispassionate view of a dystopian world where memory is the enemy
His point of departure is Rabindranath Tagore, who believed that “the idea of the Nation” is “one of the most…
Pamuk’s new novel The Red-Haired Woman does not emerge from his earlier essays on the father, but it situates the…
A reality check on why our society and politics can never be freed from corruption
That India is a grand celebration of plurality, in thoughts and deeds, can’t be emphasised enough
