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'Keeru' review: Exploring identity and resilience in Fauzia Rafique's novel

New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Fauzia Rafique's slim novel Keeru, elegantly translated from the Punjabi by Haider Shahbaz, contains multitudes in less than 200 pages. As a work of fiction, it trains its gaze o... Read More


Amrita Mahale's new novel 'Real Life' dissects the unlikely friendship between two women

New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Amrita Mahale's debut novel, Milk Teeth, was set in Bombay (now Mumbai) of the 1990s. It followed the ups and downs of a close-knit Goud Saraswat Brahmin community in Matunga, a ... Read More


Why AI tools aren't creating more free time at work

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes optimistically predicted that humans of the future would need to work only 15 hours a week because, in the next 100 years, technology would... Read More


How book launches have started resembling traffic jams

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Ask any writer and it's likely they will admit that it takes a village to put a book out in the world. Starting with the author, the process usually unfolds through a widening ci... Read More


Is Urdu the language of Indian Muslims alone, asks Rakshanda Jalil

New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil's new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers a... Read More


Is Urdu the language of Indian Muslims alone? asks Rakshanda Jalil

New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil's new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers a... Read More


Book review: Exploring identity and home in Jeet Thayil's 'The Elsewhereans'

New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- Jeet Thayil's new book The Elsewhereans has been published as fiction, but it defies neat generic classifications. With its moorings in memoir, biography, travelogue, photography ... Read More


Longform: Comics that force our attention to the little details

New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- What kind of young person would want to read an old-fashioned comic book these days, when life is filled with a million visual stimulations. Going one step back, why would creator... Read More


How Astronomer turned a scandal into a marketing win

New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Calamity strikes businesses in all shapes and forms, but the recent incident involving US-based data operations company Astronomer's ex-CEO Andy Byron and ex-chief people officer ... Read More


Bette Howland, the writer who returned from oblivion

New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- Ten years ago, Brigid Hughes, the founding editor and publisher of the literary magazine and imprint A Public Space, was rummaging through the $1 carton at the Housing Works' Book... Read More