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Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Yet remarkable and compelling as their stories may be, there is an unsteadiness to this juxtaposition, an awkwardness of...

19 April 2025 5:58 PM IST

Books | Is it possible to do no harm in Jaffna?

Books | Is it possible to do no harm in Jaffna?

The Sri Lankan civil war, fought across nearly three decades, is said to have claimed up to a hundred thousand lives,...

30 March 2025 1:58 AM IST

Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’

Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’

It may be said of literary careers, if you don’t mind humouring a simplistic analogy from Hindustani classical...

22 Feb 2025 12:46 PM IST

Book Review | A vacuous Delhi in monochrome and monotone

Book Review | A vacuous Delhi in monochrome and monotone

What do we make of disgusting literature? Aesthetic theories of art and ‘good taste’, across various...

18 Jan 2025 12:19 PM IST

Book Review | Portrait of an open wound

Book Review | Portrait of an open wound

In many ways, Sharankumar Limbale’s novel Sanatan is a history of the present, examining as it does the...

21 Dec 2024 1:02 PM IST

Book Review | Spare, brutal, rural Maharashtrian noir

Book Review | Spare, brutal, rural Maharashtrian noir

It has proven particularly difficult to write fiction in English about the present. Indeed, arguably the...

26 Oct 2024 12:00 PM IST

Book Review | An uncle’s-eye view of modern India

Book Review | An uncle’s-eye view of modern India

A man ties a woman to a chair and runs a live auction where figures from her past bid money to decide her fate

21 Sept 2024 1:14 PM IST

Book Review | Whither identity without politics?

Book Review | Whither identity without politics?

“While reading a headline about Kashmir a few years ago,” writes Priyanka Mattoo in her new memoir, “I...

17 Aug 2024 12:48 PM IST