Lounge

Vauhini Vara: The Tech Realist

Aditya Mani Jha

Aditya Mani Jha speaks to Vauhini Vara about her debut novel, a blend of the historical and the satirical

Mom Versus Child

Sharanya Manivannan

What it means to have an abusive mother

Lives Less Lived

Karthik Keramalu

A caste study from a village in Gujarat

Jeet Thayil and Ranjit Hoskote on Indian Poetry

Nandini Nair

‘There is an urgency and commitment in the voices of the poets in this book.’ A conversation between poets Jeet Thayil and Ranjit Hoskote about an anthology of modern Indian poetry edited by the former

Conflict and Concord

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Despatches from a fractured land

The Maximalist

Aditya Mani Jha

SB Divya’s science-fiction novel, set in 2095, pits humans against Artificial Intelligence. The author in conversation with Aditya Mani Jha

Akbarnama: Peace with All

Parvati Sharma

The Akbarnama continues to be relevant not because it valorises one man but rather because it echoes the tenet of unity in diversity

Thresholds of Time and Space

Arshia Sattar

A finely delineated and sharply observed story of a middle-class Delhi family during Partition, by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, wins the International Booker Prize. A first for a translation from India