By Chaandreyi Mukherjee
Rushdie’s narrative seduces and beguiles as it traces dynasties of kings and their reigns full of intrigue and passion, conversing animals, magical metamorphoses, charming forest goddesses and an enigmatic and supremely alluring storyteller.
By Sadia Hashmi
Baran Farooqi’s translation of Khalid Jawed’s Ne’mat Khana is an important contribution to Indian literature.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
Kunal Basu and Saikat Majumdar both turn their spotlight on the Janus that is India today. Riven, fractious, schizophrenic, this India is a site for desperately competing utopian fantasies in desperate denial of the dystopia looming in the wings of history.
By Ramlal Agrawal
Forster knew that the ship of his noble intentions had hit the rocks but he was an indefatigable optimist and therefore when Fielding asks Aziz can they be friends, the answer is not “no” but “not yet”.
By Nupur Paliwal
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti is a groundbreaking work, compassionate and profound in its portrayal of seemingly ordinary Pakistani lives, setting itself apart from the author’s other explicitly political works.
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