Sumana Roy is an author. Her most recent book is My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories
Writing fiction amidst headlines
The noise of time
We overlook the beauty of stillness as we get lost in the ant crawl of everydayness
A master of ‘wet poems’ places the body at the centre of political and social structures
Shrikant Verma’s Magadh is brought to new life in Rahul Soni’s translucent translation. Reading it in modern-day ‘Magadh’ is a revelation
A Hindu devotional song calls out to Facebookers seen as sinners in need of redemption
Sumana Roy spends an afternoon in the company of a smuggler
Amit Chaudhuri’s window to Calcutta shows a city where incompatible things miraculously coexist
On the spontaneous literature of outrage the Delhi rape has evoked
The farce surrounding one of India’s most important roads, National Highway 31
CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
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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