Nandini Gupta’s debut novel “Daughter of the Night” is a fresh take on a simple journalist’s life who just wants to lead a simple life. Like many journalists, she gets up each day to go to work, works all day, and returns home to spend restful evenings with her grandparents. She loves her job; she […]Read More
Author Ansuman Bhagat has achieved ‘India’s most popular young face in the writing world in 2021’ for his book– ‘Your Own Thought.’ Gaining fame and popularity in any field of pursuit is a matter of pride. Author Ansuman Bhagat has achieved ‘India’s most popular young face in the writing world in 2021’ for his book– […]Read More
Both Aruna Nambiar and Priya Balasubramanian are writers who have delivered strongly South Indian characters on a platter of beautiful, nostalgic words. On December 23, the authors came together at The New Indian Express’s Dakshin Literary Festival 2020 to discuss the anatomy of a character. “Location is essential because it evokes a setting for the […]Read More
My idea of fantasy is fairly whitewashed. You know, with the Fair Folk and golden-haired maidens in towers. Although Western history is great inspiration—I too swoon over knights in shining armor who insist on being called “sir”—its domination has prevented me from seeing myself in fantasy novels. At best, I could be the “exotic” sorceress […]Read More
‘Low’ is Jeet Thayil’s new book and an exploration of the yearning for oblivion. The story follows an Indian poet named Dominic Ullis whose wife has recently died of suicide. On a whim he takes her ashes to Mumbai to immerse them and while there he tries to deal with his grief by gorging on […]Read More
This debut novel by Veio Pou, who teaches English at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, takes us towards the Northeast. To be precise, towards the ground realities in and around Manipur of the 1980s and 90s. Brilliantly put together, the story flows along, carrying with it the heady combination of the stark […]Read More
The seed of Norfolk-based Polly Crosby’s debut novel—described as 2020’s most haunting and magical literary fiction debut—germinated when she heard about Kit Williams’ Masquerade, “an armchair treasure hunt”. The book’s central character, nine-year-old Romilly Kemp, lives in an ancient farmhouse in Suffolk with her eccentric artist father Tobias and cat Montgomery. Until Romilly was four, […]Read More
A story is made up of events, but is both more and less than them. While the events may mean multiple things, the story forces them into specific interpretations and discards the rest. SL Bhyrappa deconstructs the classic Indian epic of the Ramayana into events, and back together into a different story in Uttara Kanda—one […]Read More
Tyranny comes from the fear of losing what’s most precious to the tyrant. Sometimes that thing is power, sometimes it’s the semblance of normalcy. In her book Hellfire, Leesa Gazi explores tyranny and the way in which powerlessness is internalised, through the medium of a dysfunctional family. The book opens on an intriguing premise: Lovely […]Read More
This Christmas is going to be very special for many reasons. The beauty of Christmas has manifested owing to the pandemic era. A lot of things which were considered abnormal have become the new normal. The heavily criticized reading behaviour took a sharp positive turn and people find reading books as the best way to […]Read More
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