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...

Both a coming-of-age novel and a familial drama issuing from a social taboo, Silver Sparrow seeks to avoid the obvious binaries — wife/ whore, legitimate/illegitimate — by humani...

The desire to achieve literary immortality has often driven authors to turn their lives into a living hell. Writing, undoubtedly, is hard work; writing good books even more so. One can, therefore, und...

The early decades post Independence and through the Cold War years — comprising in all some 45 years of UN history — sees an Indian approach which, in Murthy’s words, “... it w...

What follows is a long-winded socio-cultural explication of “Nehruvian science” — the framework gradually expands to include Syed Ahmed Khan, Bankim Chatterjee, Rajendralal Mitra, Ma...

The rest of the essays chart out some of these protocols that navigate between the desired and the undesired, and, sometimes, even the undesirable, spreading over a range of historical contexts and th...

Stuart was one of four debut novelists on this year’s shortlist. The others were Brandon Taylor for “Real Life,” which follows a Black gay graduate student navigating white campus cu...

The workplace has changed and as we create this page you are reading from the constraints of our home, missing the convenience of the office, we are learning to accept and adjust to the ‘new nor...

What was the feeling like holding the physical copy of The Ickabog in your hands? Sai Prasad: It was like a dream come true. It was a very good feeling holding the book in my own hands for the first ...