X and Y didn't make the news, Zee did it; The bomb that blew on their face; When the script got botched; Weighing a deadly anchor; Which side are the conservatives?; And a shotgun wedding.
Lakshmi Holmström, whose translation of Karukku, a novel by Tamil writer Bama, is on the Crossword Book Award shortlist, chides mainstream publishers for ignoring writers from other Indian languages
The Hindi writer wonders why in less than a year after Mai came out in English, she has been reviewed, interviewed, photographed more than in the ten years before that when it was available in Hindi...
