Sumana Roy
Sumana Roy is an author. Her most recent book is My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories
What Happens When Nothing Happens
We overlook the beauty of stillness as we get lost in the ant crawl of everydayness
01 March 2017
Written on the Body
A master of ‘wet poems’ places the body at the centre of political and social structures
09 March 2016
My City for a Poet
Shrikant Verma’s Magadh is brought to new life in Rahul Soni’s translucent translation. Reading it in modern-day ‘Magadh’ is a revelation
02 December 2013
Facebook to Bhaktbook
A Hindu devotional song calls out to Facebookers seen as sinners in need of redemption
15 May 2013
My Adventure with Bluetooth
Sumana Roy spends an afternoon in the company of a smuggler
13 March 2013
A Modern City, Forever Old
Amit Chaudhuri’s window to Calcutta shows a city where incompatible things miraculously coexist
06 March 2013
Words from This Anger
On the spontaneous literature of outrage the Delhi rape has evoked
11 January 2013
Pather Panchali
The farce surrounding one of India’s most important roads, National Highway 31
20 December 2012
Authors
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is a member of Rajya Sabha and the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.
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