When Purple Pencil Project asked me if I would review Breast Stories by Mahasweta Devi, I almost refused. What is there to..
Translated by Ranjita Biwas Assam’s struggle for identity and independence has always plagued the state; from the Assam Agitation in 1980s to..
Translated by Arunava Sinha Background Dastan is an Urdu word that means ‘story’; and the poetic travesties of life and death are..
Over the last few years, there has been a resurgence of nationalist sentiment around the world, and especially in India. Fostering a..
“No, it was not very hard to fall in love with Karna, however unsuitable a suitor he was condemned to be.” Yes,..
This epigraph to Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth neatly ties up the collection of short stories, which views the idea of a home..
Illustrations by Ayushi Rastogi As a child, I loved reading comics. Billu and Raman were my favorites, folllowed closely by Chacha Chowdhary..
Boats on Land is a collection of short stories, by poet Janice Pariat, set in Shillong, Cherrapunji and Assam, told with lyrical..
This is how the blurb of The Forest of Enchantments (written by Chitra B. Divakaruni, published by HarperCollins) goes: “It is a..
Pashmina is the story of an expat teenager living in the US, who finds a way to connect with her roots back..
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