Saira Shah Halim spoke to Vineetha Mokkil about her new book, Comrades and Comebacks: The Battle of the Left to Win the Indian Mind, which reasserts the relevance of the Left in India.
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.
-
-
Arundhati Roy’s memoir is a search for answers rooted in the awareness that all puzzles are not meant to be solved
-
Women translators are giving India's writers new voices in the global literary conversation.
-
A remarkable travelogue across Indian cities through the years.
-
Amid the relentless monsoon, the author watches Kerala bid farewell to Communist icon V.S. Achuthanandan
-
Mental health needs to be reframed as a human right—especially for women in India who have been silenced, stretched thin, or made to feel small.
-
Many a star who burnt bright on the firmament of art, literature and science has struggled with mental illness.
-
Ableist and sexist tropes of disability in literature have changed to some extent, but there’s still a long way to go
-
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
-
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.
Advertisement
Newsletter
Signup for Outlook and get curated content to your inbox everyday.