Books

You chose to write a comic novel about a gay author with a happy ending — both radical choices hardly experienced before in fiction. Were there any trepidations on your mind? Ha ha! No, none! B...

The reverberations of this neutering of the original, unalloyed Constitution, Singh correctly points out, resonate to this day. The source of the Indian State’s repeated infractions on liberty t...

In Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar’s bicentennial year, perhaps it is also important to remember some other extraordinary individuals around him. Krishnakamal Bhattacharya (1840-1932) was one of them: ...

But if one side of this story is mired in fanaticism and paranoia, the other — that of Sanauallah Khan and four others, who had been falsely accused of gang-raping a Hindu woman — is a tes...

Take, for instance, the essay on Sagar island and the marauders of the Sundarbans that explores the possibility of developing an ecological approach to border politics and the activities of those grou...

Originally published in the Bengali as Abiram Jwarer Roopkatha, this book is deep-dive into 20th century Calcutta, documenting the life of a radical physician Dwarikanath Ghoshal who fights to save th...

Tell us about your new book Suheldev This is set in the 11th century. I think there is one of the mistakes that our established historians have made. We don’t call the British colonial rule, th...

Interestingly, in the first of many micro-escalations of the abuse, Strane gives Vanessa his own copy of Lolita. In Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov lets the child indict Humbert Humbert, her abuser and the n...

Also, since the lockdown, several virtual platforms have come up. Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) has launched a virtual festival called Brave New World, Oxford Bookstores have started video recordin...

All cities are alike, yet the same city can mean different things to different people. Each citizen sees it in a different way; each visitor brings with him/her a fresh perspective; each time we revis...