stories
Epic Retellings
Poorna Swami
Dance and theatre productions upturn popular versions of characters and stories from the Ramayana
Jeet Thayil: A Poet’s Fiction
Jeet Thayil’s new novel is inhabited by troubled storytellers. The novelist talks about his art and life in a conversation with Nandini Nair
The Ban That Must Not Be
The Adivasi Will Not Dance tells of a Santhal worldview that is all too often ignored
Anees Salim: The Solitary Reaper
Anees Salim first found a licence to fantasise in his hometown of Varkala in Kerala. In his latest novel he returns to the sea with a scathingly funny, achingly sad story
Suketu Mehta: City Slicker
The chronicler of metropolises returns to fiction to tell the story of memory and displacement
Cop Land
Anita Nair’s second Inspector Gowda offering is on the horrors of child trafficking and sexual abuse
The City, the Stroller and the Comic Strip
Three artists explore the joys of city strolling and mining its stories. On display under a single roof in a Bangalore gallery are the pleasures of flânerie
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