Indian folklore and epics are the two recurring motifs in your narrative. In this country, there is a tradition of passing on of stories from one generation to another, from the mother to her daughter, from the grandfather to his
I had devoted the past week to the 2016 Pulitzer-winner Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene: an Intimate History- a gripping and terrifying account of the gene’s discovery and the consequent scientific experiments in the field of genetics. Mukherjee’s insights into how
Longlisted for the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for fiction, Sharanya Manivannan’s The High Priestess Never Marries is her debut collection of short stories, alternately titled “Stories of Love and Consequence” and published by Harper Collins, India. Chiefly known
Goirick Brahmachari’s debut poetry volume, For the Love of Pork, is an inebriating journey from the misty Himalayan mountains of Assam and Meghalaya to the crisscrossing flyovers, malls, bars and by-lanes of insomniac Gurgaon and Delhi. This Kerouac-ian road trip
All Of Us In Our Own Lives Manjushree Thapa Aleph Rs 499 | 213 pp For most Indian readers, the country of Nepal is distinctly alien, cloaked in the ever-changing mysteries of a world so close, and yet so
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How did you come across Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and decide that you wanted to work on illustrating the cities written in the book? Tell us a little about this project in detail. It’s a long story, but I’ll do
“From another year, another day, I remember when we had a waer[1]—when electricity was cut off for the night, so it was very quiet. We were sitting together having dinner. Suddenly, there arose a shrill cry that seemed to emerge from the
Detours: Songs of the Open Road Salil Tripathi Tranquebar Rs 695 | 372 pp Salil Tripathi’s Detours is a kind of exploration of all kinds of things through an examination of one’s surroundings. Standard travelogue material. The book is
The Greeks had a number of words for love to account for the multiplicities contained in the word—eros for sexual love, auteros for requited love, pothos for idealised love, philia for friendship, agape for unconditional, selfless love, storghe for the