We love books (duh!). They take us to new places, or at least give us fresh eyes to view the places we..
“Fiction is the lie which tells the truth” History has always held an inexplicable sway over the reader. The far off time..
To Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf The Oxford Dictionary defines femme fatale as a ‘very beautiful woman that men find sexually attractive..
Some new names and some old, some popular choices and some critically-loved. 2018 was an exciting year for Indian literature, a time..
English poetry in Kolkata found itself blooming frutifully in the 1950s, often called the ‘transitional decade’. Romantic poetry then was represented by..
This is not a book review. Who am I to judge the past, or what was written of it? I was introduced..
In a couple of hours from now, the National Novel Writing Month or the NaNoWriMo will begin in India. For a whole..
I think we’re beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked..
I was vacationing with two of my brothers last week, corporate bigwigs who sashay down the airports every month, eat meals at..
Yet another July 31 is here and my social media is filled, cheerfully, in reverence to the boy who lived, to the..