Between lips and lips there are cities…
A reverie for the small, the resilient for whom language is a tool to strike new…
April, 2014
On Reading and Publishing Controversial Literature
Penguin India’s willingness to accept the ban of Wendy Doniger’s book – in stark contrast to…
Me and My Plays
Mahesh Dattani’s new book Me and My Plays, brings to its readers two previously unpublished…
Green Room
Mahesh Dattani needs no introduction. Suffice it to say that the release of his new book,…
Mirror to a Mind
Vikram Chandra’s new book Mirrored Mind is a deceptively simple read but it sets off complex…
Tongue Ties
1. yes. tongue is another hand i have to caress, write and grope through our hominan…
Let there be Lies: Making the Map of a Universe of Make-Believe
Are insight and deception two sides of the same coin? Koli Mitra considers how the artifice…
WORDS
The very words we use to define ourselves or anything in our world, and even the…
Lost.. and Gained, in Translation
Arunava Sinha considers how languages and their literary output are essentially lost, and yet something of…
AIYOo, Telugu By-Heart ?
Is there such a thing as being ‘literate’ in a language without being ‘fluent’ in it?…