Memories of journeys and voyages across the oceans, cultures and continents.
A 9-year-old boy is witness to rows of coffins from his mountain house window. Through his innovative Blues, short dirges straight from the heart, he pines for...
When the public space is hostile, women have no choice but to accept the misogynistic definition of a woman’s rightful place in society.
Translations from Tamil to English are moving towards new directions in Indian publishing which augurs well for an ancient language to attract contemporary...
Instead of shoving his way into the train at Bandra station, Waghmare liked getting pushed and flowed into the bogey with the crowd. He witnessed the...
These poems commemorate fatherhood by recalling childhood stories, bonds made over books and rivers, the onset of illness and the eventual loss of the father.
The shootouts at schools...the attacks at the places of worship... should have never happened...
Fathers' Day ruminations of the son of a 'tawaif' from Kamathipura in Maharashtra: 'He came for sex. She gave him love':
The book assesses development projects funded by concessional LoCs, bilateral trade, people- to people initiatives, and grant projects between India and Africa.
The playback and ghazal singer of the 20th century crooned in more than 15 regional languages and also fought for the right to royalty fees for playback...
Hrishikesh Sulabh’s latest Hindi novel, Data Peer, set in a Patna locality called Peermuhani, brings alive a world where the spirit of coexistence binds the...
They utter something as one and in chorus. I tell them, I don't want to be late for my lecture on the importance of being dishonest about climate change.
The Assamese poet and novelist, who served as the Director of the National Book Trust, reflects on the state of translations from Assamese literature and the...
Translated from the bestselling Bengali novel Narach, Chronicles of the Lost Daughters captures the glory and decadence of late nineteenth-century colonial...
These poems by Priyal 'Woodpecker', one of the new age hippies of Goa, look at the loss of Goa's natural spaces and the impact of human invasions on what was...
‘Legacy’, the last chapter of An Extraordinary Life, Parrikar’s biography published by Penguin Random House India and authored by Sadguru Patil and...
It doesn’t help if that one language is English. Everyone speaks it, or understands the necessity of the ‘lingua franca’. So it is no one’s language of...
For digital media and television channels, the incident was like manna from heaven -- a lucrative opportunity to garner viewership. It soon manifested as one...
The expressive puppets of Barefoot College in Rajasthan’s Tilonia village bind people to grassroots activism, helping them address a range of issues from...
Rajkamal Chaudhary (1929–1967) wrote outside the dicta of dominant Hindi ethics. His stories can be read like montages, flashes and sudden glimpses of the...
In a world obsessed with staying young, one can guess what lies at the heart of the Hidden Hindu. Gupta presses the right buttons of violence, hackers and...
A letter to boxing prodigy Nikhat Zareen acknowledges the efforts of her father and offers words of advice on the way forward
The topaz blue of the Toronto sky can transport one to the luminous regions of solitude.
And I may have lost the shore/But now the ocean is my own.
