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Murder with Bengali Characteristics

Book Review: Murder with Bengali Characteristics

Jokes aside, there is something to be said about this novel’s failure to work as a murder mystery.

Irrawaddy Literary Festival

Literary Festival Confidential

The author makes a virginal entry at Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Literary Festival, and comes away with a few unexpected revelations.

Tanuja Desai Hidier

Myth and Memory

In conversation with Tanuja Desai Hidier, singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Born Confused and Bombay Blues.

Trilogy

Creating Readers

In conversation with the founders of the Eternal Library, India’s first library consultancy firm, and Trilogy, a new library, book store, and event space in Mumbai.

Devashish Makhija

Escape Velocity

In conversation with writer and filmmaker Devashish Makhija about Forgetting, his new book of short stories.

Forgetting by Devashish Makhija

Butterflies on Strings

The Maoists aren’t a ‘tribe’, though some of them might be tribals. The C.R.P.F. certainly isn’t. Which tribe hunts for a monthly salary?

The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing: Volume Four

Available Now: Helter Skelter’s First Print Edition

Vol. 4 of our New Writing anthology is our first print edition and features original writing handpicked by Janice Pariat, Nitoo Das, and Jerry Pinto. Get your copy now!

Book Review: Seahorse

In Janice Pariat’s debut novel Seahorse, time is tethered to love, to obsessions, to personal myths.

Annie Zaidi Gulab

Book Review: Gulab

Annie Zaidi takes the tropes of the conventional ghost story and breathes new life into them.

The Lives of Others

Book Review: The Lives of Others

Mukherjee writes with subtlety and intelligence, never quite allowing any of his characters to assume a moral authority.

The Adventures of Stoob

A School Story

In conversation with Samit Basu about his new series of children’s books titled The Adventures of Stoob.

Mirages of the Mind

Book Review: Mirages of the Mind

Mushtaq Ahmed Yosufi’s novel captures the overpowering sense of nostalgia that erupted in the Indian subcontinent after the partition.