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Book Review: M. Mukundan's "Delhi: A Soliloquy" is an elegy for innocence

A nonchalant depiction of the personal tragedies of people as they unfold in Delhi during the war years in the 1960s and 1970s, the Emergency and the

Chandrashekhar Kambar. His plays are known for their folk and rural content and their lyrical beauty and innovative theatrical presentations.

Flavourful translation of Chandrashekhar Kambar's plays "Rishyasringa" and "Mahmoud Gawan"

The two translations of Chandrashekhar Kambar’s plays retain the lyrical imagination and folk-inspired creativity of the originals.

Story of ghazal

A comprehensive tribute to Urdu ghazals and the cross-cultural roots of the enthralling poetic form.

Shades of life

Paramita Satpathy’s stories present the life of the 21st century woman in the Odisha village, countryside and city effectively and imaginatively.

One Hell of a Lover By Unni R. Translated from Malayalam by J. Devika. Eka, 2019.

Lyrical & radical

A collection of 19 Malayalam stories in English translation where the translator proves to be as intrepid as the author.

Bold imagination

Paul Zacharia, in this new narrative structure, ushers in a new sensibility, a new approach, examining in a playfully sceptical vein all that is held

Trendsetting fiction

Modernist Malayalam short fiction by Kakanadan, set in the avenues and gullies of Delhi of the 1960s, now in English translation.

A date with the desert

A lyrical and compelling travelogue on various aspects of life in the Arabian desert.

A rare harvest

The two volumes give the non-Malayalee readers and the diaspora a solid, tangible proof of the existence of a proud culture and heritage.

FILE -- The English novelist Kazuo Ishiguro is pictured in Chipping Camden, England, on Jan. 26, 2015. Ishiguro, known for his spare, elliptical prose style and his inventive subversion of literary genres, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, Oct. 5, 20167. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)

More English than the English

Kazuo Ishiguro, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a non-native speaker of English who acquired the language and reached the pinnacle of

O.N.V. Kurup. The way he has reached out to people through poetry remains unique.-C. RATHEESH KUMAR

Poet of the masses

O.N.V. Kurup, who has been awarded the Jnanpith Award for 2007, is a literary icon with a universal appeal.

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