By Ananya Dutta Gupta
Saikat Majumdar’s The Remains of the Body suggests a decisive move in the author towards écriture feminine.
Tag: Fiction
By Neera Kashyap
In ‘Quarterlife’, Devika Rege traces several issues to their roots: the search for identities and values in contemporary living and the shocks these unleash; the origins of religious and political intertwining; the causes of family ruptures and rapprochement; the subliminal feelings of Dalits and half-castes; of educated and semi-literate minorities; of impassioned nationalists; of gays with their struggles of coming out in the open.
By Md. Firoj Ahmmed
Although The Revenge of the Non-vegetarian is not like Chatterjee’s ground-breaking debut novel English, August, he certainly raises some grave religious and political questions that have beset contemporary India.
By Amulya Anita Gurumurthy
Perumal Murugan places the biographies of the characters in their historical context; assesses the personal against the political and the individual in light of the structural. While his characters operate within the confining cartography of the village, they are complex and agentic, often negotiating systemic oppression.
By Sudeep Ghosh
Saikat Majumdar’s ‘The Middle Finger’ is a tender tapestry of empathy, where sensory energy transforms into swirling waves of subtle energy.
By Anshif Ali
David Diop’s enthralling novel ‘At Night All Blood Is Black’ undermines the stereotypes of African savagery and exposes the barbarity of European colonial officers in particular and of war in general.
By Nabanita Sengupta
Chakraborty’s novel talks about the anxieties, depression, and helplessness of two young men caught in the rush of city life.
By Chaitali Sengupta
Burn the Library and Other Fictions is an intense exploration of human condition that tug at your heartstrings. The well-structured stories are rich, unusual, and varied in their range. Such range gives this slim volume considerable merit and deserve greater attention.
By Nabanita Sengupta
The stories in this collection often peep into the partially known, cloudy, translucent part of the mind.
By Evgeny A. Khvalkov
Alrond got ready for the trip and thought about going to Adtiarn to the court of King Taravon. He, people say, pays the brave and clever nobles handsomely. And Alrond went to the city of Adtiarn.
By Haritha T Chandran
They either fuck or fight and sometimes fuck and fight. There is no in-between.
By Ram Govardhan
Of all the disasters, Sara knew, coming across one’s ex is the most fatal one.
By Karun Menon
Standing tall with him in her left arm and the black umbrella in her right, she took a breath. And they ascended slowly…one step after another.
By Salini Vineeth
“I mean, you are a human mannequin, a living doll. Aren’t you sick of these people, their fake smiles, and selfies?”
By Ramlal Agarwal
In her short stories, she steers clear of cultural confrontation. She deals with characters and situations where there is no confrontation, though she points out the cultural differences without a comment. Jhumpa Lahiri’s insights adds to our understanding of globalization.
By Maliha Iqbal
She went out swift as the wind, her lilac saree carelessly rippling behind as she walked ahead.
By Prabhakar Singh
Professor Chap Lucie, from the Hogward University, entered her classroom holding a coffee mug in her right hand at 10:30 AM sharp. Her personalized coffee mug had the title of her most-cited articled printed on it.
By Sharif Atiquzzaman
As he walked to the hotel, Arif thought of the carved map of a divided country on Ator Ali’s cracked, worn-out skin.
By Madhu S Nair
After a few months, Mohan Gopal returned to America as a married man. This time he arrived in a different city.
By Anindita Das
Bhaswati Ghosh’s debut novel Victory Colony, 1950 is a story of bereavement, estrangement, and resilience in the backdrop of the 1947 Partition.
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