New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Dear Reader, Some years ago, I tried translating one of my life's bibles, Bengali author Lila Majumder's novelHolde Pakhir Palok(literally, The Yellow Bird's Feather), for an Am... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Dear Reader, Texts we have read constitute the libraries in our heads and shape us. Then those libraries direct us towards texts that can be appropriate additions to the archives... Read More
New Delhi, July 25 -- Dear Reader, My recent trip to Meghalaya yielded a series of surprises. First, there was Shillong, which, in my novel-fuelled imagination, has always been a wee hill town with p... Read More
New Delhi, June 27 -- Dear Reader, A few nights ago, I had a sudden burst of anxiety at 3 am. As I gorged on cheese in front of the open refrigerator to soothe it, I had a vision of myself as Agneta ... Read More