Through his large-size paintings, Abir Karmakar attempts to look beyond the immediate—perhaps in search of the meaning that transcends real/fiction binary
The book will certainly conjure up and raise the imaginations of readers. The author has endeavoured to meld science with spirituality without lowering the level of readers' fantasies. The imagination of readers will rise to...
‘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 Do I Call You, Again?’
The Body by the Shore is a ‘scandinoir’ suspense-mystery thriller that takes the reader on a wild ride on the Danish high seas.
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 Bangladeshi sausage-van operator
One of the most profound and positive impacts the pandemic had is that it brought readers back to the reading table
Writer Saeed Ibrahim writes about the debate on short stories that he attended. While the supporters of short stories highlighted accessibility and readability, among other positives, the other sides said among other things...
A range of writings by the small voices of history shows us that suffering not only produces great literature it also generates history
Annie Ernaux's fiction turns familial history into social history and ends up speaking not only for herself but for women as a collective
Actors Fahmaan Khan and Kritika Singh Yadav have been roped in to star as lead in the upcoming fiction show 'Pyar Ke Saat Vachan Dharam Patnii'.
The triumph of Annie Ernaux's writing is that she makes the reader feel less alone in the world
In the space between what we say and what we leave out rests the intentions and deceptions of a literary text
One of the most chilling aspects of history is that what happened before can recur. That is perhaps why genuine historians and litterateurs attach so much...
Writing in a way is nothing but living one’s existential homesickness on a piece of paper. It is a process of consistently returning to various points of...
Sometimes, an ache and despondency crawl beneath the skin. However, the author tries to flaunt their best crescent. For, that’s life, with all its sweet,...
A tale of timelessness amid a life that is limited.
The story of Yadayya from Tirupati Kiran's 'Sapagrasthudu', translated from the original Telugu by Sarada Uma.
Hormaz who has written a Fashion Dictionary, feels that the act of writing itself was quite painful. He imagined that it would make more sense to become a...
A casual observation may pick up a slice of life and see that ‘there is no dearth of Good Samaritans in this awry world’ or that ‘positive thinking had...
Anupama Raju’s debut novel digs deep into “the darkness of depression, desolation, and despair filtered by the unsatisfying phone calls of a lover who is...
'Sudden relief mixed with anger made her curse the human shadow. What do you think you are doing, scaring me like that…this goddamned place is spooky...
A massive crowd gathered at Doyal Rajbongshi’s house in Jaila Para, the fisherfolk’s hamlet.
The ability to visibilise the invisible, be politically incorrect, and publish books that swim against the stream is what maverick publisher Naveen Kishore,...
Did the demon of demonetization ever visit us? Kashif Ilyas’s protagonist follows a man to a door and walks in, and when he turns to look back, the door has...
Once, as the fable goes, the rains stood up the people of Anantapur. Maybe the monsoon died in transit. That's when people tried the age-old practices of...
