The Bollywood hit ‘Padmaavat’, India’s anti-sati laws and the failure to confront misogyny.
A recent book explores the systemic rot that holds India to ransom.
Navras Jaat Aafreedi’s book puts focus on Southasian Jews.
Tibetan fiction’s two overused themes of politics and religion limits experimentation
Nepali women slam poets write on their lives and times.
The landscape of literary translation in India leaves much to be explored.
An anthology of Indian short fiction explores the dynamics of prostitution.
COLUMN: Gurvinder Singh’s Chauthi Koot uses cinema to portray Punjab as it’s rarely seen.
Arunava Sinha’s collection of translated Bengali short stories offers a quirky mix of the expected and the unknown.
The caste and gender dynamics of Nagraj Manjule’s ‘Sairat’.
Farrukh Dhondy’s whimsical exploration of words.
Rana Ayyub’s ‘Gujarat Files’ looks at how caste, religion and communal politics shaped the 2002 Gujarat riots.
