My first paid job was at an independent bookstore in Kuala Lumpur’s fashionable Telawi neighbourhood. It was the summer before I turned 16. I had just finished school, and under circumstances I can only explain as combustion of family dysfunction
Two young activists Sabuj Mukherjee and Bandikishore Mitra have come out with a remarkable edition of a book dedicated to a long interview (in Bengali) with Badal Sircar titled: The cheapest meat to consume would be human flesh. Amidst the
Yet another economic blockade looms large over Manipur. At the time of writing this piece, the Imphal-Jiribaum Highway and the Imphal-Dimapur Highway have just recovered from the spectre of a strike by the Kuki State Demand Committee. With the Nagaland
Hundreds of years ago, human memory was considered a vital part of being, a mirror to civilisation, a reflection of erudition, knowledge and learning. This was a time when books were not in existence. Today, however, we’d be hard pressed
At 128 pages, ‘A Gardener in the Wasteland’ attempts a very ambitious sweep to pull off a graphic rendition of Jyotiba Phule’s ‘Gulamgiri’ (1873) and nearly pulls it off. It is needless to say that this work must be
His are no long philosophical ruminations on fractured identities in a globalised world or a geopolitical treatise on post-Osama Pakistan. Yet by the sheer dint of his devastating satire, occasional insights into the sociopolitical history of Pakistan and characters that
What is it like to be an immigrant in the United States who has a lack of belonging and a world of isolation and is living off stolen dreams of nostalgia of an Indian culture that is frozen in time?
At 306 pages, Lucknow Boy is neither a tome nor a novella, this collection of autobiographical fragments ( I am desisting to use the word memoir) makes a delightful read. Why? Simply, because in today’s clutter of branding, image marketing,
It is imagination which has taught man the moral values of colour, shape, sound and perfumes. At the begining of the world, imagination created analogy and metaphor. Imagination dissolves all creation. Remassing and reordering her materials by principles which come