New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- In 2010, British journalist Monisha Rajesh embarked on a daredevil journey across India, which resulted in her acclaimed book, Around India In 80 Trains (2012). Since then, she'... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- It's usually in the nature of Indian Uncles (and Aunties) to dismiss Gen Z (born 1997-2012) as self-centred, distractible and addicted to the internet-compulsively doomscrolling... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- In 2000, when Minal and Dinesh Vazirani founded Saffronart, India's first online marketplace and auction house, their friends and well-wishers were confounded. "Everyone said, a... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- In his lifetime, Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was an avid traveller, who ventured beyond the boundaries of his home state Kerala to observe his subjects from close quarters, and ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 7 -- At 688 pages, Kiran Desai's new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, demands serious commitment from the reader-and it's not difficult to give it. Almost 20 years in the mak... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- As far as opening lines of novels are concerned, The Higher Education of Geetika Mehendiratta by writer and scholar Anuradha Marwah makes a lasting first impression. "It was morn... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 5 -- On 27 August, former US President Barack Obama released his annual summer reading list, featuring the usual medley of fiction and non-fiction books (including Anita Desai's lates... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Arundhati Roy makes a striking confession early on in her luminous new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me. Explaining her reason for running away at the age of 16 from her home in K... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Fauzia Rafique's slim novel Keeru, elegantly translated from the Punjabi by Haider Shahbaz, contains multitudes in less than 200 pages. As a work of fiction, it trains its gaze o... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Amrita Mahale's debut novel, Milk Teeth, was set in Bombay (now Mumbai) of the 1990s. It followed the ups and downs of a close-knit Goud Saraswat Brahmin community in Matunga, a ... Read More