Books

The Mercenary Makeup Artist by Kaylin Johnson: For those who are curious about not just the art of make-up but also the business side of it as a make-up professional, this book can provide insights. K...

Although published before the #MeToo movement came up and opened avenues for discussions on gender in the popular consciousness in ways unprecedented, Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods by Tishani Dosh...

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See A feminist narrative intertwined with history, The Island of Sea Women takes up the story of the female divers at Jeju Island in South Korea and how the events dur...

How is novel-writing different from every other form of storytelling that you have explored? I think this is a very important question because we have compartmentalised and said that a single person ...

This is the second episode of Riva Razdan’s serialised novel Nonsense and Respectability. It will be published every Sunday. Riva Razdan is a New York University graduate and currently work...

Women-centric biographies offer an interesting intervention in the gender-skewed realm of popular history that still remains a fundamentally male preserve, both in terms of authorship and subject matt...

Our nameless ‘good man’ has all the marks of a traditional bully-target: he’s diffident, intellectual, cares about his family but is lazy and prone to shirk, a thinker rather than a ...

Tell us about the inception of the book. After writing non-fiction for over a decade, I felt a compulsion to move towards fiction. There were stories that I was not able to harness in non-fiction. I ...

Having translated other works, how was the experience of translating your own mother’s words different? Delightful, as this was the first time I heard her voice as a child and young girl. Her ...

A modern retelling of a classic fairytale, but with a “grimm” (pun intended) twist. Our story starts when 16-year-old Sophia makes a desperate run from the Annual Ball and finds herself hi...