Bharati Mukherjee: A Sense of Belonging

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

Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines

When poets translate each other

In Good Company

Attending the English classes at Cambridge

City Lights

Has culture lost its place in Bangalore?

Alone and Away

Taslima Nasrin’s unending search for home

Who Will Win the Booker?

With three men and three women on the list, and with ages ranging from 35 (Ottessa Moshfegh) to 57 (Deborah Levy) the Man Booker shortlist appears to be unusually balanced.