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 ...

Unlike most dystopian fictions, Ishiguro’s machines are not out to get us; they remain distinctly servile to society. This is where Ishiguro inserts into the narrative an exploration of his abid...

Wilkerson’s disturbing micro-narratives of the dominant caste’s arrogant claims of entitlement with disregard for others, its scattered sentinels in anxious surveillance of the slightest s...

Another woman, who appears quite fleetingly but leaves a big impression, is Asha — someone the narrator is ardently in love with. The book casts her in a less than flattering light. She uses the...

Arudpragasam’s prose is poetic and his sentences are long. A writer who claims to write to give home to his philosophical thoughts rather than worship a plot, his protagonist is a symbol of ever...

Jha implores the reader to understand that toxic masculinity can be a gilded cage and that raising an empathetic son is a job that is never quite done. When Jha tells her son that she would no longer ...

The beginning of a legacy — cultural, artistic and familial — hinged upon an indomitable woman, Feisal’s maternal grandmother, Kulsumbai. Born in a Khoja family and married into an a...

The plot is centred on a fantasy-based game gifted to the two by their aunt, Maya, who runs a gaming company. The gift, which allows the children to time travel, remains a secret among the three. What...