Book Review
Paul St-Pierre’s ‘Translating Odisha’ shows readers how translations, if used well, can be dynamite.
The book provides credence to rumours and uses conversations with ex-lovers to tell Parveen Babi’s story, primarily through the lens of mental illness.
In this novel named after ruptures and remakings, the most striking breaks that some of its characters make are from the expectations they were raised with.
Through this book, Safdar’s colleague Sudhanva Deshpande has brought to painful life the especial mix of talent, camaraderie and commitment to human values that Safdar was made of.
This collection of essays by 13 happily unmarried women, edited by Kalpana Sharma, is a welcome attempt at redefining the normal, one decision, one choice at a time.
While many books, films and TV shows look at singleness as a temporary state of being, a handful of Indian novels explore the lives of women who are not wives, girlfriends or mothers.
'The Story of Being Useless' and 'Three Contexts of a Writer' root for a meaningful life.
'Accidental Magic' switches back and forth between the perspectives of four adults whose lives become connected through JK Rowling’s novels.
Kashyap subverts the myth of home as a safe haven.
This beautifully narrated book is a shining example of how an author’s imagination can make a reader look at an age-old and seemingly inviolable rendition in a new way.