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Udbhav Seth

Udbhav works with the features team at The Indian Express.

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Vikas Swarup: ‘Books have lost their aura, now just another product’Subscriber Only

August 03, 2024 17:49 IST

The former diplomat on his latest novel, The Girl with the Seven Lives, how publishing has changed since Slumdog Millionaire, and how he sifts through fact for his fiction

Sat, Aug 03, 2024

The free libraries of India telling stories of hopeSubscriber Only

July 28, 2024 05:30 IST

Run without government aid, libraries are popping up in under-resourced places around India to help people read, write and learn their rights

Sun, Jul 28, 2024

Books to read: Anita Desai returns with RosaritaSubscriber Only

July 21, 2024 05:30 IST

From a caste- and class-based analysis of the Indian education sector to Anita Desai's latest, here are the new books you should read

Sat, Jul 20, 2024

A view of the Babri masjid at Ayodhya. (Express archive photo)

When church and state marrySubscriber Only

July 11, 2024 17:37 IST

Journalist Zeyad Khan’s memoir, City on Fire, recounts a childhood in Aligarh rocked by religious clashes, India’s transformation since 2014 and how privilege changes our activism

Thu, Jul 11, 2024

Commonwealth Short Story prize winner Sanjana Thakur on her winning entrySubscriber Only

July 07, 2024 07:01 IST

The 26-year-old from Mumbai discusses how the story developed through workshops, feedback and multiple drafts

Sun, Jul 07, 2024

Explained: The continuing relevance of Franz Kafka, 100 years after his deathSubscriber Only

July 04, 2024 08:33 IST

Born in 1883 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kafka started out working in an insurance company, but spent his nights and weekends writing — his stories reflected what he saw glimpsed in the offices and overheard in the corridors.

Thu, Jul 04, 2024

Arundhati Roy wins PEN Pinter award for ‘defining real truth of society’Subscriber Only

June 27, 2024 15:44 IST

The award by the free speech organisation comes weeks after Delhi’s LG sanctioned the prosecution of the writer for comments made in 2010

Thu, Jun 27, 2024

Commonwealth Short Story Prize goes to IndiaSubscriber Only

June 26, 2024 19:09 IST

Sanjana Thakur became the overall winner on Wednesday, beating more than 7000 entrants, after recently winning the Asia honour

Thu, Jun 27, 2024

Books to read: The Caste of FoodSubscriber Only

June 23, 2024 10:57 IST

Here's the latest in fiction and non-fiction, from a history of casteism in Indian cuisine to a writer who dies before penning his masterpiece

Sun, Jun 23, 2024

Muskan Nazz, a healthcare analyst from Bihar (Credit: Renuka Puri)

10 years of NALSA judgment: What has changed for transgender communitySubscriber Only

June 09, 2024 10:53 IST

A decade after the Supreme Court judgment that recognised the rights of transgender people in India, the community tells us what has changed in their lives – and what hasn’t

Mon, Jun 10, 2024

There’s a lot of history around why it’s called ‘AI’

‘You’re no longer a private citizen in a public space’: Women’s Prize 2024 shortlisted writer Madhumita MurgiaSubscriber Only

June 08, 2024 15:30 IST

The writer on her book, Code Dependent, and the impact of Artificial Intelligence on privacy, healthcare and creative industries

Sat, Jun 08, 2024

In this book, journalist Chitvan Gill tells the story of Buland Masjid, an unauthorised colony on the banks of the Yamuna that has been abandoned by Delhi in its mad rush for industry and expansion (Source: Amazon.in)

Books to read: How Hindutva hurts womenSubscriber Only

May 26, 2024 12:48 IST

Here’s a list of new releases, from analyses of the Indian polity to historical fiction about the Chola empire

Sun, May 26, 2024

Enter Ghost: The revolutionary power of theatreSubscriber Only

May 25, 2024 19:16 IST

The novel by British-Palestinian writer Isabella Hammad has made it to the Women’s Prize 2024 shortlist. We speak to critic Jonathan Gil Harris on its themes of art as a means of resistance

Sat, May 25, 2024

International Booker Prize 2024 goes to Kairos, a romance amid the fall of the Berlin WallSubscriber Only

May 22, 2024 09:09 IST

The £50,000 prize has been split equally between author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann

Wed, May 22, 2024

Books to read: How to live in capitalism and find meaningSubscriber Only

May 11, 2024 22:47 IST

Here's a list of new fiction and non-fiction, stories about a publisher looking for ethical means of consumption and the technocratic promises of BJP since 2014

Sat, May 11, 2024

Zadie Smith’s ‘New Yorker’ essay on US campus protests: It is out-of-touch and misleadingSubscriber Only

May 10, 2024 16:36 IST

She ignores her own privilege and speaks, almost solely, to the most ill-informed parts of a protesting crowd

Fri, May 10, 2024

Paul Auster, New York scribe and existential chronicler, diesSubscriber Only

May 02, 2024 07:13 IST

A bookish teenager, not extroverted enough to be a filmmaker or athlete, he decided to dedicate himself to writing at the age of 16, travelling around the world to hone his craft

Thu, May 02, 2024

Sudhir Kakar, ‘father of Indian psychoanalysis’, dies at 85Subscriber Only

April 24, 2024 02:09 IST

Kakar turned to fiction late in life, with themes overlapping with his research.

Wed, Apr 24, 2024

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We live in terrible times. That’s why artists can’t lose hopeSubscriber Only

April 20, 2024 12:11 IST

We live in a world of unbearable tragedy, where facts and figures dominate every conversation without advancing any, where money goes again and again to the causes that damage our earth beyond repair — but this is precisely when artists must get to work

Sat, Apr 20, 2024

At the launch of his debut novel, Chronicle of an Hour and a Half (Rs 599, Westland Books) last week, at Lodi Colony’s The Bookshop, he was in conversation with Akshaya Mukul (Credits: Westland)

‘Don’t write fiction to impress social scientists’: Saharu Nusaiba KannanariSubscriber Only

April 15, 2024 18:40 IST

The author of Chronicle of an Hour and a Half on the role of literature in society, how William Faulkner inspired the book’s structure, and boundaries of gender and caste in fiction writing

Wed, Apr 17, 2024

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‘Free libraries for all’: Here’s policy memo on how it is doneSubscriber Only

April 14, 2024 05:11 IST

The memo seeks to establish a standard for what qualifies as a decent library and establish a curriculum for librarians so they can become ‘repositories for delivering constitutional rights’ instead of being ‘merely record keepers’.

Sun, Apr 14, 2024