writers
The Pleasure Principle
Shylashri Shankar
Dismantling the artificial boundaries between high and low fiction
Ritual and Catharsis
Two novels shortlisted for the 2020 Man Booker International Prize, by millennial writers, reveal how trauma can become bogeyman
Literature in the time of Covid-19
One of the few unintended positives in the overwhelming gloom has been the space writers and thinkers have been granted to become enormously productive and focused
Poets and Proselytisers
The cliques, clans and defining moments of the 13th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival
Sabyn Javeri: Inside the Veil
The Pakistani author Sabyn Javeri talks about the politics of the hijab and the role of writers in divided societies in a conversation with Shikha Kumar
Mirza Waheed: The Writer of Small Things
Mirza Waheed in his new novel excavates the grey area between complicity and consent while exploring the banality of evil
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