Book Reviews, Launches, Author Interviews, Excerpts

A group of students prepare for exams at a public library in Jharkhand’s Jamtara. Photo: Special Arrangement

Jamtara turns a new page with public library movement

Infamous as ‘India’s phishing capital’, the tiny Jharkhand district now has 45 public libraries diverting youth away from cybercrime.

Authors

Refugees are the heroes in Paro Anand’s ‘Nomad’s Land’

Deepa Alexander In her book for young adults, Paro Anand introduces the world of displaced communities and their search for boundless horizons and hope through the story of two schoolgirls

Performance of hope: Amanda Gorman recites a poem during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States.

Books

Essay Does Amanda Gorman’s poem match up to the standards of the best Anglophone poetry by Black poets?

Tabish Khair Should Amanda Gorman’s poem be celebrated as a poem?

Girish Karnad, during the launch of the book ‘Aadaadtha Ayushya', Girish Karnad's autobiography in Kannada, in 2011

Books

Girish Karnad memoir in English to be out in May

PTI "This Life at Play: A Memoir by Girish Karnad" translated by Srinath Perur, will be released on the director's 83rd birth anniversary on May 19 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Short Stories Books

Review of Anushka Jasraj’s ‘Principles of Prediction’

Archaeology Reviews

‘Archaeology and the Public Purpose: Writings on and by M.N. Deshpande’ review: A tryst with ‘trowel and spade’

Reviews

‘Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis’ review: Economic costs of COVID-19

Kandaswami Subramanian Arun Kumar on the losses caused by the pandemic for India and its poor

Reviews

‘The Force of Nonviolence’ review: The ethics of nonviolence in political resistance

Rajeev Kadambi A brilliant philosophical analysis is marred by theories limited to the imagination, failing to link a radical politics to reality

Society

book Tales from the knight bus: Rupam Dutta

Prabalika M. Borah From elephants that demand a toll to manoeuvering risky hairpin bends, Rupam Dutta shares his onroad experiences in the book ‘Life Of A Driver - Cabinor Ipare’

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Books

Short Stories Review of Anushka Jasraj’s ‘Principles of Prediction’

Pragati K.B.

In Anushka Jasraj’s debut collection of short stories, the bizarre is the ordinary

Reviews

Archaeology ‘Archaeology and the Public Purpose: Writings on and by M.N. Deshpande’ review: A tryst with ‘trowel and spade’

Rana Safvi

Post-Independence, M.N. Deshpande and other archaeologists like him, inspired by Gandhi, explored, excavated, conserved and showcased the heritage of a new nation state

VIRUS Reviews

VIRUS ‘Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis’ review: Economic costs of COVID-19

Reviews

‘The Force of Nonviolence’ review: The ethics of nonviolence in political resistance

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Authors

Jamtara turns a new page with public library movement

Refugees are the heroes in Paro Anand’s ‘Nomad’s Land’

Essay Does Amanda Gorman’s poem match up to the standards of the best Anglophone poetry by Black poets?

Girish Karnad memoir in English to be out in May

Review of Anushka Jasraj’s ‘Principles of Prediction’

‘Archaeology and the Public Purpose: Writings on and by M.N. Deshpande’ review: A tryst with ‘trowel and spade’

‘Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis’ review: Economic costs of COVID-19

‘The Force of Nonviolence’ review: The ethics of nonviolence in political resistance

book Tales from the knight bus: Rupam Dutta

The final countdown in slo mo: Anil Menon reviews Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave the World Behind’

Reviews

Short Stories Review of Anushka Jasraj’s ‘Principles of Prediction’

Archaeology ‘Archaeology and the Public Purpose: Writings on and by M.N. Deshpande’ review: A tryst with ‘trowel and spade’

VIRUS ‘Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis’ review: Economic costs of COVID-19

‘The Force of Nonviolence’ review: The ethics of nonviolence in political resistance

Authors

Refugees are the heroes in Paro Anand’s ‘Nomad’s Land’

Meet Amanda Gorman, the star poet from Biden-Harris inauguration

Lee and Andrew Child talk about collaborating on The Sentinel

Other Articles

‘The Bicycle Diaries’ details how 12 cyclists set out as global explorers from 1923 to 1942

Jamtara turns a new page with public library movement

Refugees are the heroes in Paro Anand’s ‘Nomad’s Land’

Girish Karnad memoir in English to be out in May

Friends for Kannada

‘Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis’ review: Economic costs of COVID-19

‘Archaeology and the Public Purpose: Writings on and by M.N. Deshpande’ review: A tryst with ‘trowel and spade’

‘The Force of Nonviolence’ review: The ethics of nonviolence in political resistance

Does Amanda Gorman’s poem match up to the standards of the best Anglophone poetry by Black poets?