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Book Review
Brinda Karat: Communist with a bindi
Characterised by a lack of self-indulgence, this memoir narrates a story that describes her mission to end exploitation in the world.
Smita Gupta
Short Story
‘Enlightenment’: A Marathi story in translation
The hypocrisy of a cruel literary environment conditioned by casteism and unique to India. Translated from Marathi by Priya Adarkar.
Sharankumar Limbale
Short Story
‘Scent of a Bird’: A Malayalam story in translation
Translated from Malayalam by A.J. Thomas.
Madhavikutty
White Space
How to write novels? Just do it!
Writing is as much an art as a craft, much like carpentry or plumbing. Here is how I learnt it, from gurus like Stephen King and Margaret Atwood.
Aakar Patel
BOOK REVIEW
A new biography delves into the turbulent life and subversive legacy of Michael Madhusudan Dutt
The book is a tribute to the enduring impact of the 19th century literary giant. However, it is marred by the biographer’s biases.
Sarbari Sinha
Book Review
Playing our lives, on a loop
Raj Kamal Jha’s Patient in Bed Number 12 is as much about the COVID-19 pandemic as about other plagues seeded by us that continue to rage.
Latha Anantharaman
Book Review
‘There’s blood on my knuckles’
Srilata’s poems in Three Women in a Single Room House are intimate, personal, and deeply touching.
Manohar Shetty
More stories from Literature
Why are we not reading the likes of Jussawalla and Mehrotra?
Despite critical acclaim, Adil Jussawalla and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra’s later works remain overlooked. It is time to rediscover these poetry pioneers.
Vivek Narayanan
An intoxicating history of opium
In Smoke and Ashes, Amitav Ghosh exposes colonialism’s true legacy and its echoes in today’s crises—all through the lens of the poppy.
Amitangshu Acharya
‘The Verdict’: A Tamil story in translation
Innocent young minds meet mixed messaging in schools. Will casteism triumph or be vanquished? Translated from the Tamil by Malini Seshadri.
Bama Faustina
Haruki Murakami at 75: The ‘accidental’ novelist who took Japanese literature global
Murakami’s often surrealistic novels have made him one of the most successful writers in the world.
Deutsche Welle
The invisibilising of queer Dalits in Yashica Dutt’s 2019 memoir
Dutt erases queer Dalit voices while claiming the term “coming out” for herself, overlooking its origins and complex marginalised experiences.
Sumit Baudh
Unveiling a reclusive genius: 20-year documentary shines light on Tamil literary icon Nakulan
The documentary by Pandiaraju delves into the world of avant-garde writer T.K. Doraiswamy, aka Nakulan.
Siddarth Muralidharan
For the love of Urdu
Once a treasure trove of bookshops, the grand old Urdu Bazaar in the walled city of Delhi faces an existential crisis.
Mir Umar
Frontline On Air | When Tagore’s poem got the Indira touch
Indira Gandhi’s diligent edits on an English translation of the iconic poem “Ekla Chalo Re” reveal her latent literary sensibilities.
Sanjiva Prasad
Always a good fight
A few of India’s leading writers spoke to Frontline of the hopes and challenges the future holds.
TEAM FRONTLINE
Year of plenty
The Frontline list of the Top 10 titles of 2023 in fiction and non-fiction.
TEAM FRONTLINE
When Tagore’s poem got the Indira touch
Indira Gandhi’s diligent edits on an English translation of the iconic poem “Ekla Chalo Re” reveal her latent literary sensibilities.
Sanjiva Prasad
‘Forty Years’: A Kashmiri story in translation
Translated from Kashmiri by Neerja Mattoo.
Bansi Nirdosh
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