Identity and belongingSandhya RaoFor Indian readers, particularly, the novel hits bang in the solar plexus: everything said and implied is relevant in our context.
Folklorist’s taleSandhya Rao The lore of an unknown commander of Tipu Sultan told in a blurry mix of the real and the imagined.
Nuanced narrativeSandhya RaoThe writer’s connect with reality and realism holds his narratives together.
Fiercely honest memoirSandhya RaoThe book takes the reader into the writer’s mind, offering glimpses of the creative process, and is a forceful argument against labelling writers by
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
