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A book review of The Walls Of Delhi by Uday Prakash

An Ode To Resistance— Anandi Kar

A Review Of The Walls Of Delhi by Uday Prakash     Uday Prakash’s The Walls of Delhi, translated into English by Jason Grunebaum, is a rare instance of contemporary Hindi fiction that bravely brings into sharp…...

A Chronicle That Is A Prophesy— Ankita Bose

A book review of Chronicle Of A Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa    Publisher: Penguin Random House India, No. of Pages: 122 [caption…...
Review of dystopian novel The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa translated by Stephen Snyder

The Impermanence Of Memory— Ahana Bhattacharjee

A Book Review Of The Memory Police: A Novel By Yōko Ogawa And Translated From The Japanese By Stephen Snyder      First published in Japan in 1994, and one of more than 40 works of…...
Book review of Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri, exploring memory, consciousness and unconsciousness

Of Memories Close And Distant— Subhadrakalyan

A Book Review of Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri     Amit Chaudhuri’s latest novel, Sojourn, published in August 2022, offers us a narrative that has memory as its central character. Even though the story anchors the perspective of an…...

Surreal, Slanderous, and Awake: Nilim Kumar’s Poetry— Aritra Sanyal

A book review of I'm Your Poet (Selected Poems) by Nilim Kumar, translated from the Assamese by Dibyajyoti Sarma    Publisher: Red River   In her essay, Translating into English (2005), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak…...
A book review of Urdu stories from India and Pakistan

Exploring New Urdu Writings— Shams Afif Siddiqui

A Book Review of New Urdu Writings: From India and Pakistan (2013): An Anthology of short stories from the subcontinent, edited by Rakhshanda Jalil   Publisher: Tranquebar  The words 'New' and 'Writing' in…...
A book review of part one of the Chandal Jiban Trilogy- The Runaway Boy- by Manoranjan Byapari

Charuibeti Or To Keep Moving Ahead With Jiban— Ahana Bhattacharjee

A review of the first part of the Chandal Jiban Trilogy, The Runaway Boy, written by Manoranjan Byapari, and translated into English by V. Ramaswamy      The first thing to hit the reader upon initial reading…...
A book review of These Hills Called Home by Temsula Ao

An Intimate Portrait Of Nagaland— Ahana Bhattacharjee

A Review Of Temsula Ao's Short Story Anthology These Hills Called Home     The refrain running through the text is of resilience, human will, and fortitude in the face of great calamities (personal and…...
A review of Neumann's paintings and Noteboom's poetry by Aritra Sanyal

The Whole Of The Brokenness— Aritra Sanyal

  Book Name: Self Portrait Of An Other by Cees Nooteboom and Max NeumannTranslated by David Colmer40 pagesSeagull Books  Reading Self-Portrait of an Other (2017), a letter-sized book with drawings by…...