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Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist HeroesBooks and Art
Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Yet remarkable and compelling as their stories may be, there is an unsteadiness to this juxtaposition, an awkwardness of...

19 April 2025 11:56 AM

Books | Is it possible to do no harm in Jaffna?Books and Art
Books | Is it possible to do no harm in Jaffna?

The Sri Lankan civil war, fought across nearly three decades, is said to have claimed up to a hundred thousand lives,...

29 March 2025 10:40 AM

Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’Books and Art
Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’

Certain essays repeat each other, others oscillate across ideas with decades in between

22 Feb 2025 7:02 AM

Book Review | A vacuous Delhi in monochrome and monotoneBooks and Art
Book Review | A vacuous Delhi in monochrome and monotone

What do we make of disgusting literature? Aesthetic theories of art and ‘good taste’, across various canons of ...

18 Jan 2025 6:46 AM

Book Review | Portrait of an open woundBooks and Art
Book Review | Portrait of an open wound

In many ways, Sharankumar Limbale’s novel Sanatan is a history of the present, examining as it does the fate of several...

21 Dec 2024 7:30 AM

Book Review | A masterful, minute study in intimacyBooks and Art
Book Review | A masterful, minute study in intimacy

Themes of loss, love and history converge, served alongside an extended meditation on the image and its relationship to...

23 Nov 2024 6:02 AM

Book Review | Spare, brutal, rural Maharashtrian noirBooks and Art
Book Review | Spare, brutal, rural Maharashtrian noir

It has proven particularly difficult to write fiction in English about the present. Indeed, arguably the best writing ...

26 Oct 2024 6:28 AM

Book Review | An uncle’s-eye view of modern IndiaBooks and Art
Book Review | An uncle’s-eye view of modern India

A man ties a woman to a chair and runs a live auction where figures from her past bid money to decide her fate

21 Sept 2024 7:42 AM

Book Review | Whither identity without politics?Books and Art
Book Review | Whither identity without politics?

“While reading a headline about Kashmir a few years ago,” writes Priyanka Mattoo in her new memoir, “I realised how...

17 Aug 2024 7:17 AM

Book Review | Hiding the heartbreak in Laxmi Panda’s heroic lifeBooks and Art
Book Review | Hiding the heartbreak in Laxmi Panda’s heroic life

Laxmi Rath joined the INA as one of its youngest members at 14 years, and served as a spy alongside a host of...

20 July 2024 10:24 AM

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