Akbar’s Ghost

Amit Chaudhuri: Master of the Ellipsis

The author in conversation with Nandini Nair. Photos: Rohit Chawla

Ashokamitran (1931-2017): A Precise Storyteller

Truth is not stranger than fiction in the world of Ashokamitran (1931-2017)

Seeking Boris Pasternak in Putin Country

The poet of patience

Open Diary

The benefits of Trump's H1B visa clamp and the significance of Sanskrit

Bharati Mukherjee: A Sense of Belonging

Bharati Mukherjee is at home in America—a place without hyphens

Open Diary

JLF 2017: Wordscapes

We present the faces that launched a million stories from the JLF 2017's tenth edition. Photographs by Rohit Chawla

In Search of the True Bengali

The persistence of an identity dispute

From Chennai with Love

Goddesses and divas populate this first fiction