Ableist and sexist tropes of disability in literature have changed to some extent, but there’s still a long way to go
About The Author
Vineetha Mokkil is Associate Editor, Outlook. She is an alumna of New York University and the author of the book 'A Happy Place and Other Stories'. She writes on books, gender, and the interconnection between culture and the climate crisis.
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The early Indian stories in this series, translated into English for the first time, are a portal through which you can enter an India that now exists only in memory
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After working as a journalist in Chile and later going into exile following the Pinochet coup, Isabel Allende turned memory and myth into fiction. She speaks to Vineetha Mokkil about the letter that became her first novel and the power of storytelling.
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Set in the heart of Lutyens’ Delhi, Arunima Tenzin Tara’s debut novel delves into the macabre horrors of patriarchy
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The 2025 International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq’s works speak the universal language of human experience
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Recent novels by many Indian fiction writers remain preoccupied with the mother-daughter bond, including Anita Desai’s Rosarita; Avni Doshi’s Girl in White Cotton; Radhika Oberoi’s Of Mothers and Other Perishables, and others
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Anisha Lalvani’s debut novel, Girls Who Stray, is a haunting, poetic coming-of-age tale about a nameless young woman caught between disillusionment, desire, and despair.
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Whether you are a teenager living in North, South, East or West India, you are expected to stick to a certain normative script of masculinity
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While in India to attend the 2025 Jaipur Literature Festival, Jenny Erpenbeck spoke to Vineetha Mokkil about her perpetual search for the story behind the story
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Why read poetry? Why stand still and tune into poetry’s cadences in a madly spinning world? Because poetry, as the wise Irish poet Seamus Heaney put it, “inspires a hope that new possibility can still open up.”
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