A valuable archive documents the migrant crisis in India that exacerbated after COVID-19
Journalist Vikas Kumar Jha first visited McCluskieganj in 1990 to write a story for a magazine. But he fell in love with the unique Anglo-Indian town and ended up writing a novel that has won many awards and accolades
There is no dearth of prejudice and stereotyping of Anglo-Indians in 19th century English literature
An anthology of translations brings rare gems of pre-colonial Kannada literature to readers
The Body by the Shore is a ‘scandinoir’ suspense-mystery thriller that takes the reader on a wild ride on the Danish high seas.
Kitty Texeira, an Anglo-Indian woman, has been living in McCluskieganj for decades, searching for her identity. An extract from Vikas Kumar Jha’s novel
Angshuman Kar’s poem speaks about the consequences of reducing one’s identity to a piece of paper
It is important to understand the depth of the politicisation of the issue of cow protection which, over the last couple of decades, has resulted in the...
A son writes a poem to his father about his inability to tell him that he loves him
A bilingual poet, straddling the English and Odia worlds, finds that never giving up on writing kept him afloat
One of the three main protagonists, Jens Erik, a conservative Danish police officer close to retirement, is talking to one of his informers, Hanif, a...
Journalist and filmmaker Revati Laul talks about the kind of Gujarat that fuelled the imagination of artists not so long ago versus the dead space that it is...
Life assumes a different hue when you see it beyond the GDP, as you can hear the poetry of silence and ambivalence that Bastar weaves. Excerpts from...
Life assumes a different hue when you see it beyond the GDP, as you can hear the poetry of silence and ambivalence that Bastar weaves. Excerpts from...
Adivasis don’t fall into the lingual traps of modernity. In their philosophical tradition, they are more realistic and scientific than any society
The memoir by a police officer tells a delightfully unique, personal tale of a cop surmounting routine bureaucratic and professional challenges to achieve a...
‘Caste was to be annihilated. But you cannot do that for as long as people were being born unequal,’ writes Amulya B. in her riveting short story, ‘What...
The literary biography of Hindi author Nirmal Verma, written by writer-journalist Vineet Gill, is an ode to the master
Travels through the marvellous world of Urdu and Persian Ramayans
Artist and photographer Samar S. Jodha catches in still frames what he calls twilight tenderness
Sharmistha Mohanty weaves a river's turbulence around a painting
Sharmistha Mohanty weaves a river's turbulence around a painting
Autobiographical writing has long been popular with Bengalis who look for plots in their own lives
Despite, or perhaps because of, the violence that ravages the region, Kashmiri writing is blooming as the recent Kumaon Lit Fest held in Srinagar shows
