Book Reviews, Launches, Author Interviews, Excerpts

‘I didn’t want to write parody; I wanted to write in parallel’: Ben Schott

British writer Ben Schott tells us how bringing Jeeves and Wooster back to life is a not-so-plum job after all

‘Preparing for Death’ review: Intimations of mortality

Gopalkrishna Gandhi Through the lives of great minds, Arun Shourie reflects on the inevitability of death, providing instructions for the head and balm for the heart

Home truths: Labourers in Guntur on their way home to Bengal during the lockdown.

Books

Reality bites: Review of Udayan Mukherjee’s ‘Essential Items: Stories from a Land in Lockdown’

Percy Bharucha Udayan Mukherjee uses the lockdown as a touchstone to bring out our best, worst and most fragile selves

Reviews

‘Why I am Not a Hindu Woman’ review: The ‘othering’ of women, Dalits and savarna trauma

G. Sampath Drawing on lived experience, Wandana Sonalkar explains the concerns about Hinduism as it is practised today, including misogyny, caste and violence

ENERGY Reviews

‘Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World’ review: A green new deal

Bildungsroman Books

Pin grows up: Shuma Raha reviews Balli Kaur Jaswal’s ‘Sugarbread’

Books

A comic inspired by Oscar Wilde’s classic, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’

Aswin VN The oft-ignored villain of Oscar Wilde’s classic short story is resurrected by leading British comic book writer Dan Watters, and drawn to life by Thiruvananthapuram-based artist Kishore Mohan

Authors

Rick Riordan talks of Apollo’s final trial

Mini Anthikad Chhibber The Trials of Apollo and Percy Jackson and the Olympians author says human beings have the capacity to be great heroes, but can also become the bad guys quite easily

Authors

‘Was this censorship?’: Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad ask Tata Lit Live after it cancels their discussion

PTI The issues about the Citizenship Amendment Act, Adivasi killing, the industrialisation of indigenous lands and environmental degradation were to be discussed during the session.

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Philosophy ‘Preparing for Death’ review: Intimations of mortality

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Through the lives of great minds, Arun Shourie reflects on the inevitability of death, providing instructions for the head and balm for the heart

Books

Short Stories Reality bites: Review of Udayan Mukherjee’s ‘Essential Items: Stories from a Land in Lockdown’

Percy Bharucha

Udayan Mukherjee uses the lockdown as a touchstone to bring out our best, worst and most fragile selves

society Reviews

society ‘Why I am Not a Hindu Woman’ review: The ‘othering’ of women, Dalits and savarna trauma

ENERGY Reviews

ENERGY ‘Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World’ review: A green new deal

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In Conversation Books

‘I didn’t want to write parody; I wanted to write in parallel’: Ben Schott

‘Preparing for Death’ review: Intimations of mortality

Reality bites: Review of Udayan Mukherjee’s ‘Essential Items: Stories from a Land in Lockdown’

‘Why I am Not a Hindu Woman’ review: The ‘othering’ of women, Dalits and savarna trauma

‘Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World’ review: A green new deal

Pin grows up: Shuma Raha reviews Balli Kaur Jaswal’s ‘Sugarbread’

A comic inspired by Oscar Wilde’s classic, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’

Rick Riordan talks of Apollo’s final trial

‘Was this censorship?’: Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad ask Tata Lit Live after it cancels their discussion

Douglas Stuart’s ‘Shuggie Bain’ wins 2020 Booker Prize

Reviews

Philosophy ‘Preparing for Death’ review: Intimations of mortality

Short Stories Reality bites: Review of Udayan Mukherjee’s ‘Essential Items: Stories from a Land in Lockdown’

society ‘Why I am Not a Hindu Woman’ review: The ‘othering’ of women, Dalits and savarna trauma

ENERGY ‘Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World’ review: A green new deal

Authors

‘I didn’t want to write parody; I wanted to write in parallel’: Ben Schott

Rick Riordan talks of Apollo’s final trial

Balli Kaur Jaswal talks about her novels

Other Articles

Kannada prosody introduced in English

‘Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World’ review: A green new deal

‘Why I am Not a Hindu Woman’ review: The ‘othering’ of women, Dalits and savarna trauma

‘Preparing for Death’ review: Intimations of mortality

Reality bites: Review of Udayan Mukherjee’s ‘Essential Items: Stories from a Land in Lockdown’

Pin grows up: Shuma Raha reviews Balli Kaur Jaswal’s ‘Sugarbread’

Growing up with the graphic novel

A comic inspired by Oscar Wilde’s classic, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’

Satyajit Ray’s Feluda and Professor Shanku to share screen

Hercule Poirot and his 'little grey cells'