Outside Looking In
Kunal Basu’s ‘Kalkatta’ seems too disingenuous and overly sensationalised to really be of consequence, says Devjani…
Books
‘Perhaps I am a failed artist’
Kunal Basu tells Devjani Bodepudi what it took to recreate the seedy underbelly of Kolkata in…
Clients and Parties
An excerpt from Kunal Basu’s ‘Kalkatta’. Read Devjani Bodepudi’s review of Kalkatta, or click here for an…
Voices of the Mountains
The poets of the Northeast articulate marginality and negotiate the challenge of representing the past from…
Matters of Head and Heart
There is more to Urdu than the pretty sounding ghazals and there is far more to…
Caste No Bar
The acknowledgement of caste issues by a new generation of British Asian writers is a welcome…
Picking Manto’s Pocket
Despite occasional flashes of brilliance, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s biopic of the great writer is an ultimately…
About A Rescue Act
Koral Dasgupta’s maiden venture in fiction is a tolerable, if slightly filmy, love story, but the…
Subversive Verses
Javed Akhtar talks to Pratiti Ganatra about the attacks on intellectuals, and argues that a poet’s…
Beautiful Incoherence
Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a colourful experiment in didacticism, says Dipsikha Thakur. Two Years, Eight…