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Sheila Kumar
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All the lives we have forgotten
Within a few pages of our meeting Syeda in her hometown Banaras, the Babri Masjid is brought down and the riots that follow have Syeda and her ne’er-do-well husband Akmal leave their town and their weaving looms, to land up as itinerants in impersonal, cruel Delhi.
20 October 2024, 02:47 IST
All the lives we have forgotten
20 October 2024, 02:47 IST
'Hurda' Book Review: A searing look at systemic rot
Hurda is a layered book. On the surface, it is about three sisters living in Murwani, Maharashtra, who go missing and are later found dead.
15 September 2024, 02:33 IST
'Hurda' Book Review: A searing look at systemic rot
15 September 2024, 02:33 IST
Running to stay in the same place...
Rosarita is Desai’s new work after seven years and features all the familiar touchstones: repressed women lurking on the borderlines of oppression and lovelessness, autocratic men who in auto-mode run over the dreams and aspirations of their women, the choice these women face to make domestic duties acts of drudgery or acts of pride...and women who brood, ponder, ruminate endlessly.
06 July 2024, 22:10 IST
Running to stay in the same place...
06 July 2024, 22:10 IST
Bombay, where many a twain met!
Set in the Bombay of 1896, 'The Kidnapping Of Mark Twain' has two characters who turn into amateur sleuths to crack the mystery of the famous American writer who goes missing from the city.
04 May 2024, 21:11 IST
Bombay, where many a twain met!
04 May 2024, 21:11 IST
Human foibles, gently exposed
06 April 2024, 22:50 IST
Human foibles, gently exposed
06 April 2024, 22:50 IST
Hellfire in heaven
With Kashmir, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar ends her moving Partition Trilogy.
27 January 2024, 23:44 IST
Hellfire in heaven
27 January 2024, 23:44 IST
The weight of things unsaid
Chetna Maroo makes the reader work for it, reading, absorbing, and picking out the nuggets that she casually folds into the tale
09 December 2023, 23:51 IST
The weight of things unsaid
09 December 2023, 23:51 IST
A cheeky meditation on power politics
In one corner is the departed leader’s second-in-command, a brusque man defined more by his uncouth behaviour and his penchant for intense surveillance of just about anyone and everyone in the political firmament.
21 October 2023, 23:50 IST
A cheeky meditation on power politics
21 October 2023, 23:50 IST
Morality tales and monster lore
The author Linthoi Chanu deserves the highest praise for collecting local oral legends and setting them down in a manner that is relatable to the rest of India and the world.
03 September 2023, 04:04 IST
Morality tales and monster lore
03 September 2023, 04:04 IST
Wearing a cloak of pragmatism
A memoir written with great honesty, this is a portrait of a feisty fighter of a woman but one who had many frailties and flaws.
29 July 2023, 20:15 IST
Wearing a cloak of pragmatism
29 July 2023, 20:15 IST
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