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Red River by Somnath Batabyal: The past is alive, and not a foreign country

New Delhi, May 5 -- Somnath Batabyal's new novel, Red River, tells an expansive story set in an Assam shattered by insurgency and anti-Bengali protests, where ordinary lives are upturned by cruel slei... Read More


The persistence of human perfidy

New Delhi, May 4 -- Recommending Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai's Urdu novel, Vampire, in the 21st century needs to come with a trigger warning. As an account of sexual assault and its aftermath, it is a v... Read More


Salman Rushdie's 'Knife': The aftermath of an attack

New Delhi, April 28 -- Salman Rushdie's new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, hinges on the vicious knife attack he survived on 12 August 2022 in Chautauqua, upstate New York. But it... Read More