books

Book Review: Drop Dead

How do you best challenge the fact that in India, finding a woman in a position of power at her workplace is almost always the exception to the rule?

Book Review: Another Country

Anjali Joseph’s second novel seems to be about 21-year-old Leela’s relationship with herself via the men she chooses to date in different countries.

Book Review: The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk

In a book that is perhaps meant to target all age groups, Sudha Murty’s writing is easily accessible and readable.

In the Beginning

In conversation with Kari author Amruta Patil about her creative process and her latest graphic novel Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean.

Mythology and Musing

Krishna Udayasankar talks to us about sacred texts, reader feedback, and which mythological character she’d love to sit down and have a beer with.

A Labour of Love

In conversation with Shoma Narayanan, whose debut novel Monsoon Wedding Fever is the first Mills & Boon novel by an Indian author to be released globally.

Flights of Fancy

A quick chat with Bidisha Basu, one of the founders of Leaping Windows, India’s first library and café for comic books, graphic novels, and manga.

Book Review: The Taming of Women

P. Sivakami’s stories refuse to mollycoddle the reader into a sense of ennui, the worst weapon in an indifferent world.

Revisiting Mahabharat

Just one viewing of this old classic by B. R. Chopra shows us all that is wrong with Hindi television today.

A Careful Listener

Janice Pariat, founding editor of Pyrta, talks to us in an exclusive interview about Boats on Land, her new collection of short stories.

Book Review: The Book of Destruction

Translated from Malayalam by Chetana Sachidanandan, Anand’s The Book of Destruction is anything but feel-good—and that’s a good thing.

Hard Pressed

In a world where everyone with an Internet connection possesses the agency to self-publish, how do we deal with questions of quality?