A master of ‘wet poems’ places the body at the centre of political and social structures
09 March 2016Shrikant 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 2013A Hindu devotional song calls out to Facebookers seen as sinners in need of redemption
15 May 2013Sumana Roy spends an afternoon in the company of a smuggler
13 March 2013Amit Chaudhuri’s window to Calcutta shows a city where incompatible things miraculously coexist
06 March 2013On the spontaneous literature of outrage the Delhi rape has evoked
11 January 2013The farce surrounding one of India’s most important roads, National Highway 31
20 December 2012The nocturnal gathering of insomniacs on a social networking site
03 August 2012Mamata Banerjee’s career has been bound to the automobile in strange ways. No wonder, then, the reader of her memoirs soon starts to play a game of car-spotting in the narrative
30 May 2012On Tagore is as much about reading Rabindranath as it is about Amit Chaudhuri reading himself as a reader
17 May 2012Brahma 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 the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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