authors and poets

Bank of Baroda Rashtrabhasha Samman Award is the latest in growing list of literature prizes in India

A total of 12 titles in Odia, Urdu, Punjabi, Nepali, Bengali, Marathi and Tamil have been longlisted, winner to be announced on June 11

Irreverent histories: review of Nilanjan P. Choudhury’s Song of the Golden Sparrow

In the era of unicorns, there are few takers for Sudha Murty’s brand of simplicity

Veena Venugopal

Looking back | ‘The Collected Stories’ by William Trevor

For seasoned author Ruskin Bond, age is just a number as he celebrates the many joys of life as a senior citizen

Ruskin Bond. File.

Review of Ruskin Bond’s The Golden Years: A book of simple living

Just a late Blumer fangirling

Teacher to rockstar | K.K. Shailaja on her new book ‘My Life as a Comrade’

Gopinath Mohanty turned a keen eye on the human condition and changing mores, and wrote about it with empathy.

Stories from the margins: review of Odia master Gopinath Mohanty’s Oblivion and Other Stories

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Metropolitan Building near Chowringhee.

Review of Sankar’s Dear Reader — A Writer’s Memoir: In memory of memory

The Covenant of Water spans eight decades of a Kerala Christian family that suffers a strange affliction: at least one person dies by drowning in every generation.

Abraham Verghese on his new book The Covenant of Water, a sweeping family epic set in Kerala

Stanley Carvalho

Ganeshananthan, 43, American writer and journalist of Ilankai Tamil descent, says she wants to dismantle the very language of terrorism.

Author V.V. Ganeshananthan goes beyond labels to tell the story of war, terrorism and Sri Lanka’s Tamil community in Brotherless Night

Avantika Shankar

Alba de Cespedes wrote at a politically volatile time and two of her novels were banned by fascists.

Review of Forbidden Notebook by Cuban-Italian author Alba de Cespedes, translated by Ann Goldstein

Free speech censorship censored and freedom of expression concept , political art illustration, conceptual artwork

Looking back at George Orwell’s Animal Farm: a stunning indictment of corrupt power and manipulation of truth

From poetry to short story to novel, Vinod Kumar Shukla is one writer who navigates all genres with equal panache.

Vinod Kumar Shukla: quiet champion of the Hindi heartland

Ashutosh Bhardwaj

First edition Charles Dickens books at Gopal Narayan Public Library in Bharatpura.

Patna | First editions of Dickens and Firdaus’s Shahnama among prized collection at century-old Gopal Narayan Public Library in Bharatpura

Priyadershini S

The Sami community lives in villages north of the Arctic circle in Scandinavia, and herd reindeer in their own collectives.

For the love of the reindeer: review of Stolen by Sami author Ann-Helén Laestadius

Sushila Ravindranath

‘The Internet is where our poems can live, even if they are lonely and not visited by readers’: author-poet Sumana Roy

‘Songs of Solitude’ is a collection of 21 poems by first-time author Harini Ramesh, which has been published by Book Leaf Publishing.

Book review: Songs of Solitude is a collection of poems by Harini Ramesh to evoke a sense of belonging, community, and togetherness

Veteran journalist Karan Thapar says he has become persona non grata after the BJP government has come to power in the country.

Karan Thapar and the death of the interrogative interview

‘All writers have a restlessness from a young age,’ says B. Jeyamohan

Writer-critic B. Jeyamohan draws on his experiences living as a beggar in his 20s in new book The Abyss

Radhika Santhanam

The verses circle back to the poet’s relationship with his mother and to the intimate and ordinary magic of the memories they share.

Memory as a mood-map: review of Naveen Kishore’s Mother Muse Quintet

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Kumar Vikram and his book on Men's Lib

Defining Men’s Lib