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    Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal MusicBooks
    Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal Music

    The best stories in the collection arrive at the very end, as if the writer were warming up with every passing effort

    6 July 2025 10:06 AM IST

    Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal MusicBooks
    Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal Music

    Lindsay Pereira’s first two novels were both set in Mumbai, the city where he grew up. His debut novel, Gods and Ends,...

    28 Jun 2025 4:05 PM IST

    Book Review | The Radicalism of Jesus Christ Portrayed AffectinglyBooks
    Book Review | The Radicalism of Jesus Christ Portrayed Affectingly

    Malayalam author Benyamin shot to prominence among English-reading circles when he was awarded the 2014 JCB Prize for...

    14 Jun 2025 1:30 PM IST

    Book Review | In The Shallows Of Family SecretsBooks
    Book Review | In The Shallows Of Family Secrets

    Even as Govil sensitively renders the inner life of these characters, the orbit of their every day is left unrealised

    17 May 2025 1:43 PM IST

    Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist HeroesBooks
    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
    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’Books
    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 monotoneBooks
    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 woundBooks
    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 noirBooks
    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 IndiaBooks
    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?Books
    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

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