English

Author of Atmospherics

Nandini Nair

Talking weather with Amitav Ghosh

Race

Ajit Duara

In spite of its excellent performances and craftsmanship, this film is a little too politically correct

Going Mainstream

Trisha Gupta

How translation from Indian languages to English is giving regional literature a dedicated new readership, turning linguistic rivals into potential allies

Back Together

Rajni George

The biggest bromance in contemporary literary history comes full circle at JLF, as VS Naipaul and Paul Theroux drive out together

Novelist Upamanyu Chatterjee is the master of Indian cool. In his latest, Fairy Tales at Fifty, he pushes his limits in a bleak tale of modern Indian anguish. The writer in conversation with Open magazine

The English Non Goddess

Madhavankutty Pillai

The outrage Rajnath Singh’s statement on English has evoked shows our genius at turning slavery into a virtue

The Cult of the English Shirt

Aanchal Bansal

With Thomas Pink entering the Indian market, English shirts have made a comeback in fashion talk

The Madrassa Englishwalas

Aastha Atray Banan

At Markazul Ma’arif, madrassa students are taught English with the aid of books by authors like Ted Hughes and Khushwant Singh

English Vinglish

Ajit Duara

It’s great to have Sridevi back on screen after such a long gap

Where’s the Great Indian Novel?

Arunava Sinha

A novel written in English can never really become a ‘Great Indian Novel’. Such a book in English can only be a translation of an Indian novel, rather than one originally written even in His Salmanness’ sparkling prose