New Delhi, July 20 -- One of my favourite genres of social media content features a variation around the following theme: a bully manager and a brazen Gen Z character lock horns over an unfair demand ... Read More
New Delhi, July 19 -- On a recent afternoon in Jacobpura, a nondescript, dusty neighbourhood in Gurugram's Sector 12 sweltering in the summer heat, a stranger walks into the crammed front office of th... Read More
New Delhi, July 11 -- Manil Suri's memoir, A Room in Bombay, is dedicated to "Prem". It becomes clear in the first few pages that it refers to his late mother, Prem Suri nee Bindra. The decision to re... Read More
New Delhi, July 5 -- It's nearly a month since members of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and their supporters gathered at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar on 6 June to stage a public protest. Despite extre... Read More
New Delhi, July 3 -- In 2023, when Kamran Haider decided to build a home for his family in Noida, he had two main requirements in mind. "I grew up in a range of houses-from DDA flats to farmhouses to ... Read More
New Delhi, June 25 -- Ann Patchett's new novel, Whistler, tells the story of the reunion between Daphne, the narrator, and her stepfather, Eddie Triplett, 44 years after they had last met. They run in... Read More
New Delhi, June 14 -- In an undated but not too distant past, Dutch writer and artist Valentijn Hoogenkamp, who now identifies as non-binary and uses the he/him pronouns, discovered that he had the de... Read More
New Delhi, June 13 -- Nirmala Thomas's novel Manjil Oruval, translated from the Malayalam as Snowed Under by Radhika P. Menon, has an unusual coda. Written by Dr M.V. Pillai, clinical professor of onc... Read More
New Delhi, June 8 -- In 2011, when I decided to leave my first job after more than five years because it no longer felt fresh or challenging, my father was more upset by the decision than my then empl... Read More
New Delhi, June 1 -- The covid-19 pandemic pushed us to the brink of an abyss-and the abyss stared back with a multitude of answers. Some discovered a lifeline in baking sourdough bread. Others found ... Read More