Books
When Bella Meets Heathcliff
Gunjeet Sra
From Sylvia Plath to Emily Bronte, publishers are unapologetically lending a light touch to the packaging of literary classics by women
Everyman’s Tale
Taj Hassan’s largely unnoticed novel recreates the complexities of life in Maoist-strong zones
The Binge Writer
Madeline Miller can write for 14 hours a day and still maintains she does not deserve to be called a writer. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2012
Pataudi, through Many Eyes
This tribute to Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi brings into clear focus the cricketer who broke regional barriers in India’s dressing room
The Difficulty of Being Invisible
Mayank Austen Soofi has a very instrusive presence on the pages of his book on the lives of Delhi’s sex workers
Why My Book Didn’t Sell
The book Spies from Space: The Isro Frame-up detailed how the real traitors in the Isro espionage case were CIA moles in India’s Intelligence Bureau. Is that why the book quickly disappeared from bookstores?
Grand Ambition with a Few Jarring Notes
Ranbir Singh Sidhu’s short stories are often pedestrian and spectacular at the same time
Love Stories Are Not Straight
This queer anthology questions labels such as ‘straight’ and ‘gay’ and, among other things, addresses the complications of love
An Absent Memory of a Community
In her book, Sindh: Stories from a Vanished Homeland, Saaz Agarwal explores why the region continues to remain a collective blind spot of Partition, even for Sindhis who fled to India and then tried to erase it from memory. An extract:
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