“If the sky were sheet of paper/ If every blade of grass on earth were pen/ If the seven seas were awash with ink/ If..
When Purple Pencil Project asked me if I would review Breast Stories by Mahasweta Devi, I almost refused. What is there to say about Mahasweta..
Customs, words, culture, language are always in a state of translation; from one audience to another, from one story to another, from one medium to..
Separate Journeys, the new collection of short stories edited by Geeta Dharmarajan, is earthy and raw in its exploration of womanhood in multiple forms –..
Short Story Thursday is a weekly series dedicated to highlighting the short-stories from Indian literature. In August, we focused on the theme of #WomenInTranslation. First..
Paramita Satpathy is among the most renowned modern fiction writers in Odia. In her career spanning three decades, she has carved out a niche for..
Her Stories is a set of eight stories by eight eminent Bengali women writers translated by Sanjukta Dasgupta. It is a collection of short fiction..
Situated between a sprint and a marathon, novellas are the perfect remedy for our shortening attention spans. Longer than a short story, and shorter than..
When I read the blurb of There’s Gunpowder in the Air, I couldn’t help but be reminded of an iconic scene from the popular Hindi..
Translated by Nandini Krishan Estuary (noun): the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream What attracted me towards Perumal Murugan’s..