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

The nocturnal gathering of insomniacs on a social networking site

Mamata 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

On Tagore is as much about reading Rabindranath as it is about Amit Chaudhuri reading himself as a reader