Month: February 2022

This debut collection of poems by Sayan Aich Bhowmik is marked by an aesthetic of dewdrop gentleness, often turning to absences — of people, places, memories and even a self in search of its own skin. Bhaswati Ghosh reviews this slim but not insubstantial volume …[Read More]…

Annie Zaidi sets new trends in the genre of the city novel with her mode of presentation that interweaves the lives of six women and six men in ways that none of the nameless protagonists could have imagined but may have foreseen. A review by Ashoak Upadhyay …[Read More]…

A selection of four poems from Sukrita Paul Kumar’s latest collection, Vanishing Words that betoken the disappearance of words when verse transcends meaning and emerges as pure experience, lingering silence. Accompanied by her own artwork.…[Read More]…

This volume of south Asian Science Fiction with its hybrid, genre-bending stories and poems adds a new dimension to the corpus of south Asian literature with their attempt to represent the contemporary moment with all its myriad nuances finds Shweta Khilnani…[Read More]…

Albert Luthuli (1898-1967) became South Africa’s leading advocate of Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent civil disobedience techniques, framed apartheid as a crime against humanity. Robert Vinson’s biography hints at how liberation histories might be reframed to better address the problems of the present. Christopher Lee reviews …[Read More]…

Chowdhury and Keane take us on a detailed excursion into the heart of India’s darkness, its slide into what they term elective despotism. Illuminating surely but does it spell democracy’s failure? Ashoak Upadhyay doesn’t think so. …[Read More]…