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The pound of flesh that motherhood extracts

India, Jan. 10 -- In Burns Boy, the unnamed mother of Guru and Aparna says, "Then I thought maybe he [Guru] didn't like my stories, and that thought terrified me, even more than him not liking me anym... Read More


Review: Burns Boy by Krupa Ge

India, Jan. 10 -- In Burns Boy, the unnamed mother of Guru and Aparna says, "Then I thought maybe he [Guru] didn't like my stories, and that thought terrified me, even more than him not liking me anym... Read More


Review: The Comeback by Annie Zaidi

India, Jan. 1 -- Annie Zaidi's The Comeback is about one man's journey from self-absorption to consideration for others staged as an ode to theatre as an artform. It asks important questions of popula... Read More


HT reviewer Akankshya Abismruta picks her favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 19 -- Rural India doesn't have much representation in Indian fiction in English. But, every once in a while, a book comes along that reminds us that villages still exist as do their associ... Read More


Sannapureddy Venkatarami Reddy: "Shepherds know how to take care of the forest"

India, Nov. 19 -- What led you to writing Konda Polam or Tiger Lessons, focusing on a community of shepherds in the Nallamala hills in Andhra Pradesh? I hail from a village amid the dry lands near th... Read More


Personhood as a product of many contexts

India, Nov. 8 -- The first woman writer to publish a novel in Sindhi, Guli Sadarangani's Ittehad (1941) is an interfaith love story. Despite this achievement, however, she has largely gone unrecognise... Read More


The keeper of stories

India, Nov. 1 -- Huthuka Sumi is the latest addition to the growing group of voices from Nagaland. For a long time, the place was written about by British anthropologists, American missionaries and po... Read More


Review: Giants by Huthuka Sumi

India, Oct. 31 -- Huthuka Sumi is the latest addition to the growing group of voices from Nagaland. For a long time, the place was written about by British anthropologists, American missionaries and p... Read More