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
New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes optimistically predicted that humans of the future would need to work only 15 hours a week because, in the next 100 years, technology would... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Ask any writer and it's likely they will admit that it takes a village to put a book out in the world. Starting with the author, the process usually unfolds through a widening ci... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil's new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers a... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil's new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers a... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Jeet Thayil's new book The Elsewhereans has been published as fiction, but it defies neat generic classifications. With its moorings in memoir, biography, travelogue, photography ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- What kind of young person would want to read an old-fashioned comic book these days, when life is filled with a million visual stimulations. Going one step back, why would creator... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Calamity strikes businesses in all shapes and forms, but the recent incident involving US-based data operations company Astronomer's ex-CEO Andy Byron and ex-chief people officer ... Read More