How the ‘nayi Hindi’ used in Musafir Cafe announces a new grammar of storytelling.
In his birth centenary year, Ritwik Ghatak’s works illuminate not just the psychological rupture of 1947, but also the exile,…
In these four poems, exclusive to FE, poet Ashwani Kumar explores war and its horrors through the body, memory, and…
How Bihar’s polity still speaks in the idiom of the 1954 novel’s Maryganj—a choreography of caste, charisma & calculation
In their determination to air brush miseries; Of non-flying flamingos, they embrace the lockdown; Like a new monotheistic religion, and…
Nayyar convincingly argues that ‘inclusive economics institutions’ evolve over time and they are a consequence rather than a cause of…
Writing with the ripening shyness of a “squint-eyed fourteen-year fisher girl”, bilingual poet and critic Durga Prasad Panda has edited…
Fukuyama argues in his latest book that demands of identity politics are at the root of most global problems today,…
Written as field notes on falsehood in the Age of Trump for journalists everywhere working to report news, The Death…
The book is the most compelling, exhaustive, innovative, riveting and perhaps challenging study of the ‘opaque and enigmatic ways’ in…
Perhaps Ashis-da himself would have written a fictional conversation between himself and his would-be assassin in a psychological thriller mode,…
A biography of Hinduism that is an exposition of a primordial and polymorphic lived faith, and also an emphatic denunciation…
Most stories in this collection are colloquial and provincial, yet cosmopolitan to the core. After reading these stories, you will…
Narrated with a dazzling, elegiac ferocity, When the Moon Shines by Day is Nayantara Sahgal’s most compelling and remorseless satire…
Ganesh Narayan Das, aka GN Devy, defies labels, monikers or even plain descriptions. A former professor of English at University…
Written with old-fashioned clarity, hawk-like precision and a sense of urgency, The Broken Ladder: The Paradox and the Potential of…
This is not a book on the intellectual history of the ‘enlightenment and its discontents’ or the globalisation of zombie-ridden…
Tabish Khair on xenophobia being elevated from a physical form to abstraction, resulting in Islamophobia and the rise of right-wing…
