New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- With a gripping memoir by Arundhati Roy, followed by a riveting novel by Kiran Desai, 2025 has turned out to be a year of comebacks for some of the best writers from India who ha... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- Halloween is upon us, but in case you fancy a quick scare any time of the year, simply log in to the "Indian Workforce" subreddit on social media platform Reddit. It's open seaso... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- In the days of cable TV in India, one of my favourite shows was Courage: The Cowardly Dog, which aired on Cartoon Network from 1999. The eponymous dog had a pink body and bad tee... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 20 -- In Silences, one of the finest stories in Shanta Gokhale's luminous new collection, The Way Home, 18-year-old Basant is summoned by his father Sharad, who is on his deathbed, for... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- In a public conversation in Kolkata in 2010, writer and scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was asked if she would describe herself as a "cosmopolitan". To which, like any erudite... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- Last week, global consultancy firm Capgemini published a report on the state of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the corporate sector, based on a survey of 2,750 leaders ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 5 -- Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari's new novel, his second, unfolds as a police procedural, though an unusual one. The Menon Investigation opens with an act of violent killing. In 2009, a 3... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- Namita Devidayal's new book bears the cryptic title Tangerine: How to Read the Upanishads Without Giving up Coffee. Tangerine, it soon becomes apparent, is her preferred alternati... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- I was in Ahmedabad last weekend, where, during a visit to Sabarmati Ashram, I picked up a copy of R.K. Narayan's 1955 novel, Waiting for the Mahatma, from the bookshop on the prem... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- The other day, as I was waiting for a colleague to join a video call, a notetaker app knocked on the virtual door of the meeting room, asking to be let in. I am a big believer o... Read More