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Here’s to Mahua Moitra and other difficult women— may they remain fierce, unfiltered, in charge of their storiesSubscriber Only
June 10, 2025 15:48 IST
In sharing photos of her private wedding celebration on social media, Moitra sent out the message that she will not edit herself to fit into anyone else’s frame
Thu, Jun 12, 2025
International Booker Prize 2025: ‘I call myself a writer-translator with a hyphen in between’, says Deepa BhasthiSubscriber Only
June 01, 2025 15:04 IST
The translator of the Kannada short fiction collection Heart Lamp on why the act of writing and translating is always hyphenated, the criticism that the book has faced and why translating a work by a woman is very different to that by a man
Wed, Jun 18, 2025
International Booker Prize 2025: How Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp insists on dignity, witness and repairSubscriber Only
June 01, 2025 14:59 IST
The short fiction collection is not a seductive read in the traditional sense. It doesn’t dazzle with plot twists or offer the slow burn of psychological complexity. Instead, it demands something more uncomfortable from the reader: to sit with pain, to listen to voices that have long been smothered, and to recognise that certain stories aren’t told to entertain; they are articulated to hold space for grief, for defiance, for survival
Wed, Jun 18, 2025
What writers think of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’, a century laterSubscriber Only
May 18, 2025 15:13 IST
A century after the publication of Mrs Dalloway, writers, poets and academics speak of its quiet, radical power, and how it touched their lives.
Sun, May 18, 2025
Remembering author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate and stalwart of Latin American BoomSubscriber Only
April 15, 2025 14:33 IST
A liberal who revered order, a novelist devoted to realism, a critic of radicalism who once flirted with revolution, Vargas Llosa was, in many ways, an anachronism. However, his contradictions did not diminish his influence.
Tue, Apr 15, 2025
Watching ‘Adolescence’ as a parent: We don’t know what we are up againstSubscriber Only
March 28, 2025 07:05 IST
Adolescence is difficult, navigating it as a parent has no map in the digital age. Love, though, may still be the answer
Fri, Mar 28, 2025
‘With Love, Meghan’ is a tone-deaf fantasy of domestic blissSubscriber Only
March 11, 2025 12:51 IST
Not all of us can emulate Meghan Merkle's lifestyle. We have to squeeze in the“present-parent” vibe in between work and getting the children to school, and maybe — just maybe — catching an episode of her show
Tue, Mar 11, 2025
The World With Its Mouth Open is a remarkable meditation on survival and connection in a fractious worldSubscriber Only
March 09, 2025 05:30 IST
Zahid Rafiq chooses his words with care and plays around with structure, language, memory and identity in ways that mirror the disjointed and interrupted nature of life in Kashmir
Sat, Mar 08, 2025
Between Kolkata and Delhi, looking for homeSubscriber Only
February 28, 2025 12:09 IST
Once, the disorderly sprawl of the city had felt constraining for young ambitions. Now, Kolkata is a city plush with a wistfulness for lost selves. Delhi, on the other hand, makes an adult of you overnight.
Fri, Feb 28, 2025
Dear Mark Zuckerberg, do we really need more masculine energy?Subscriber Only
January 20, 2025 12:45 IST
His lament on the loss of macho energy in corporate culture, in a podcast with Joe Rogan, casts the oligarch as a responsibility-shrugging man-child. It's a masculinity that tries to pass of moral failure as moral high ground and opportunism as strategic foresight
Mon, Jan 20, 2025
The first Miss Merkel Mystery gives a post-retirement makeover to former German Chancellor Angela MerkelSubscriber Only
January 19, 2025 14:41 IST
Whiling away her time with nothing more consuming than baking, and choosing which colour of blazer to sport, Merkel’s life takes an exciting turn when she chances upon the murder of local aristocrat Baron von Baugenwitz.
Sun, Jan 19, 2025
Allegations against Neil Gaiman: Fact, fiction and the writerSubscriber Only
January 15, 2025 07:07 IST
When harsh truths about a beloved writer are uncovered, the betrayal goes deep
Tue, Jan 14, 2025
Best of 2024: Crime fiction and thrillersSubscriber Only
December 31, 2024 19:15 IST
Our pick of the year's best crime novels
Tue, Dec 31, 2024
‘The more society becomes secular, the more we lose our disposition to keep questioning things’: Samantha HarveySubscriber Only
December 16, 2024 07:16 IST
Booker Prize 2024 winner on faith, philosophy and the importance of tuning out noise in a hyper-connected world, and why she wanted to stay away from the overtly political in her novel Orbital
Mon, Dec 16, 2024
Lost in the noise: Why my Spotify Wrapped is an AI-powered disappointmentSubscriber Only
December 12, 2024 14:32 IST
It might be too big an ask of a corporation intent on maximising profit to be a record keeper of our inner lives, but perhaps, it could be a more faithful custodian of the background score to our fleeting days so we have an inkling of who we were and who we have become
Sat, Dec 14, 2024
Not just Australia — as a parent, I think other countries too should ban social media for kids under 16Subscriber Only
November 11, 2024 12:23 IST
For most millennial parents, there is little or no precedence on how they can guide their children through this problem, given their own digital gap and the impracticality of keeping a surveillance on children’s online lives. They could do with all the help possible
Mon, Nov 11, 2024
Anita Desai on new novella Rosarita, her changing relationship with India and why families never cease to surpriseSubscriber Only
October 13, 2024 06:39 IST
In the sparsely-written work, Desai explores the unknown layers to individual lives that get subsumed in the quiet violence of the everyday
Sun, Oct 13, 2024
Sonali Prasad’s debut novel Glass Bottom sacrifices story for styleSubscriber Only
September 29, 2024 05:30 IST
In this time of rapid environmental change, climate fiction is a genre that is increasingly gaining currency, even if its practitioners are still finding their way around the scope of the Anthropocene.
Sat, Sep 28, 2024
Behind Mamata Banerjee’s failure to read the protests, the establishment’s unfamiliarity with its new languageSubscriber Only
September 16, 2024 07:55 IST
Whether in power or in Opposition, it is in her role as the underdog that the West Bengal CM has been most at ease. But she now finds herself at an impasse. Can she find a way out of it?
Mon, Sep 16, 2024
What we don’t talk about when we talk about rapeSubscriber Only
August 27, 2024 13:00 IST
Not the power asymmetries that silence women and are at the heart of all sexual violence, nor the masculine, majoritarian language of the law that puts the burden of guilt back on women
Thu, Aug 29, 2024
From ‘invaders’ to ‘Ujjayini meridian’ — the disservice textbook revisions do to studentsSubscriber Only
July 27, 2024 18:30 IST
Even if one were to put away moral considerations, half-knowledge is dangerous preparation for the competitive realm of higher education. In particular, when it comes to the sciences, always aspirational for India’s middle class, it is unhelpful to remain divorced from standardised global discourses on it
Sun, Jul 28, 2024
In dark secret about Alice Munro, the moral fallibility of our literary idolsSubscriber Only
July 09, 2024 20:02 IST
Weeks after Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro's death, her daughter tells the story of abuse at the hands of Munro's husband — and the writer's silent acquiescence
Thu, Jul 11, 2024
Apple, Foxconn and married, working women — where’s the imaginary support system?Subscriber Only
June 27, 2024 19:52 IST
This failure is not that of the government or political parties alone. Far too many women are told that they are ‘fortunate’ to have families that ‘allow’ them to work outside or have partners who help around the house.
Sat, Jun 29, 2024
Women are at the core of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films: Does he do them justice, or is he only exploitative?Subscriber Only
May 24, 2024 16:23 IST
Indian Express' Paromita Chakrabarti and Pooja Pillai debate Bhansali's cinema and his feminism. Through their pieces, they offer not this-versus-that, but the best of both sides.
Fri, May 24, 2024
Sanjay Leela Bhansali focuses on women — he just doesn’t understand themSubscriber Only
May 24, 2024 07:00 IST
In Bhansali's films, male gaze masquerades as women’s aspiration and agency
Sun, May 26, 2024Journalism of Courage
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