
The Queen of Jasmine Country by Sharanya Manivannan
If there was one way to describe the frailty and beauty of the Queen of Jasmine Country, it would be to compare it to its

If there was one way to describe the frailty and beauty of the Queen of Jasmine Country, it would be to compare it to its

In the first paragraph of the Preface to the poetry book The Unmistakable Presence of Absent Humans, Srilata quite beautifully encapsulates what this collection of

Written by Appadurai Muttulingam, Translated from Tamil by Padma Narayanan. Appadurai Muttulingam’s After Yesterday and Other Stories reminded me of another anthology of short stories

When was the last time you watched the proceedings of the Parliament on the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha TV? “Who watches TV, right?” And

It’s common to hear stories of sisters falling in love with the same man or brothers in love with the same woman. Romance and tragedy

It is hard, sometimes, to pick up the best book out of many great books. And what is harder is the dilemma you face even

Originally written in Urdu as Ghaddaar by Krishan Chander The air in August 1947 was laced with poison. The overcast monsoon skies spelt doom. The

In I’m So Hacked, a regular worker in a software company by day, @v! moonlights as a hacker. He takes sadistic pleasure in “hacking” people;

The first thing that intrigued me about the book was its title; I thought that Janki is the name of an actual “raga” and started

Tishani Doshi’s Small Days and Nights is the latest addition to her much-admired oeuvre of poetry, dance and fiction. In this book, she spins the
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