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Writers, broadly speaking, are creatures of strange habits. Agatha Christie would ponder murder plots while munching on apples in her bathtub; Walter Scott composed poetry on horseback; Truman Capote ...

What emerge are the suffering of the budianchalia, the displaced people, the unfulfilled promises that mark the lives of families in the rehabilitation colonies, and the pain of those who were at...

When the book opens, she is locked in a struggle to get her husband to pay the rent while secretly working as a cleaner for well-off London families to support her child. As the local girl who made go...

That this should be the main takeaway from Troubled Blood is deeply unfortunate for a number of reasons. First, it is difficult to fathom how a writer hailed for the Harry Potter s...

The pleasure of Rummage transcends its formidable intellectual rigour. The anecdotes — the fruit of original thinking and scintillating research — are equally illuminating. In a ...

How were you introduced to the world of literature, reading, and writing? In terms of being introduced to literature, there was Arundhati Roy, Bapsi Sidhwa, and in terms of my readings as a young per...

In the first year, we had a lot of films from Mexico which were about having gender equality in the workforce and how the millennium development goals were being met by many organisations. We often go...

A blurb on the book talked about how, by “combining firsthand reportage with exemplary research, Morris takes us from Hong Kong’s clamorous back alleys to the luxurious Happy Valley raceco...

Toxic families in fiction go back as far as the art of storytelling itself. Greek mythology is awash with dysfunctional families, from Kronos swallowing his children to Zeus and the Olympians overthro...

The later sections of the novel, however, struggle to hold the reader’s interest and after being totally absorbed in the tale of Tyll’s village, the reader is likely to feel lost in the ma...