Uttaran Das Gupta reviews Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto's anthology “Maya Nagari: Bombay-Mumbai, A City in Stories.”

There is in fact a dusk-after-rain quality to her poems

In April 2002, Atal Behari Vajpayee, then India's prime minister, toured the state of Gujarat, where communal riots had recently left some 2000 people dead, mos

The 'Penguin Book of Indian Poets', edited by Jeet Thayil, must be judged for what it excludes as much as for what it includes.

The poet, painter, playwright, and physician was a vital member of the ‘Clearing House’ generation of Bombay poets.

“Poet and translator Shalim M. Hussain discusses Again I Hear These Waters, a new anthology that collects and celebrates poetry from the riverbanks and islands of the Brahmaputra.”

The 30th-anniversary edition of Vikram Seth's landmark novel A Suitable Boy is a timely reminder of India's nascent democratic aspirations

Neither the mahatma's murder, nor the Babri demolition was a result of madness. Astute men and women planned both, funded them, and provided logistical and ideological support

'Open Zero' expresses the frustration, anger and bewilderment that Naz may have felt with global political leaders dragging their feet on climate change action.

Shakti Chattopadhyay was missing. His friends had no clue where he was. This was not unusual—Shakti liked taking off. But this time, he did not return for month

The Immortal King Rao is an epic narrative spread over generations and continents that includes the entire machinery of a science fiction novel

Lorenzo Searches for the Meaning of Life is about a 20-year-old who, after a brutal accident, turns to asceticism and worship to figure out why he must continue living

The film starring Ranbir Kapoor and Bobby Deol unleashes the desires of many Indians accustomed to violence

This book is important for those interested in Bollywood or in queer activism in India, but also for those who are looking for a life story to inspire them

Naveen Kishore’s poetry engages with grief in poetry with bravery, without blinking.

Zephaniah’s radical rejection of mid-20th century abstract aestheticism in Western poetry has been much commented upon since his death recently.

'Main Hoon Na' embodied an optimism about India-Pakistan relationships that's all but lost now

A new anthology brings together poetry written by poets who have been incarcerated.

Plato had banished poets from his utopian republic, fearing their lies. India is doing the opposite.

Amar Singh Chamkila: An accusation of obscenity is usually not an attempt to control prurient art but to limit its radical potential

Karuna Ezara Parikh’s 'where stories gather' shows the reader why she is so popular on social media.

Laxmibai Tilak, a contemporary writer, recounts how plague camps, where patients were quarantined, were 'kingdoms of the god of death'

Kangana Ranaut-starrer 'Thalaivii' traces the rise of Jayalalithaa from an ingenue to a powerful politician

What emerges from these interviews are some remarkable stories, some by people who knew him intimately and others who only worked with him

Fans obsess over celebrity weddings such as Ranbir-Alia. But the big fat Indian wedding is inalienable from Bollywood

Philip Nikolayev chooses 14 American and Indian poets in a syncretic jugalbandi.

While her film isn't the first on the issue, it remains to be seen whether it will be a path-breaker of sorts or add to heap of banal celluloid art

'The way words are used is a running leitmotif in this collection', says the author

A new subgenre has emerged in Hindi cinema and has received flowers and brickbats

Anuja Chauhan’s new book combines a whodunit with serious issues such as interreligious marriage, rising Islamophobia, and the media and social media frenzy that erupts over every incident in the...

Sanket Mhatre’s collection of poems reflects on a city in the grip of Covid-19, but also celebrates surviving it.

Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Chupke Chupke ridicules the desire for speaking a pure tongue

Oiswarjya Basu, 29, usually gets into a bad mood around her birthday. So, she did not have any great expectations from the day, December 30, 2019, when she foun

Unfortunately, some voices in the public sphere are raking up issues that have nothing to do with the natural calamity and are only a distraction to the mammoth efforts required to rebuild Kerala

On the Sahitya Akademi devoting a special edition of its flagship publication, Indian Literature, to Indian science fiction

Sonal Kohli’s The House Next to the Factory describes a changing Delhi through the prism of a typical post-Partition Punjabi business family

India’s colonial government in 1927 appointed a committee headed by T Rangachariar, a former judge of the Madras High Court, to investigate the growth of the new medium of cinema that seemed to have...

This biography of the most important non-Congress and non-Hindutva politician in post-Independence India fills a major gap in the nation’s chronicles

Remarkable stories about the life and work of Subhas Chandra Bose and India's late-colonial history fill the pages of Krishna Bose's book