Sandipan Deb
What is it about fiction that sends us recoiling towards poetry?
The images chronicle Mumbai’s underclass—migrants who pour into the city’s entrails from various parts of Maharashtra and other states
The author on Calcutta’s elusive connection with its literary tradition and the anarchy caused by the Hungry Generation
Last fortnight, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was nominated for the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Here, he lambastes English literary sensibility in India