Nature & Environment
Photo Essay by Bishweshwar Das
Bishweshwar Das’s photo essay from Bhopal on the 41st anniversary of the Bhopal Gas tragedy.
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Non-Fiction
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Creative Non-Fiction
Sitting with Solitude
A personal narrative about Holly Claytor’s experience as an American au pair living with a French family in Provence.
Book Reviews
Footnotes to the Mahabharata by K. Srilata
Basudhara Roy reviews K. Srilata’s Footnotes to the Mahabharata.
Book Reviews
Main Jab Tak Aai Baahar by Gagan Gill
Sudeep Ghosh reviews Gagan Gill’s Main Jab Tak Aai Baahar
Literature
Sing, Slivered Tongue – Excerpt
Extract from Sing, Slivered Tongue Edited by Dr. Lopamudra Basu and Dr. Feroz Jussawalla.
Book Reviews
Earthrise Stories: Pasts Potentials Prophecies by Priya Sarukkai Chabria
Kabir Deb reviews Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s Earthrise Stories: Pasts Potentials Prophecies
Creative Non-Fiction
Etoile
The social worker at the hospice center asks if there is anyone my mother might like me to call.
Fiction
The Conductor And The Bear
Mark throttled off and let the train ease down to forty. There was nothing else to worry about for miles.
Book Reviews
Review of Raj Khosla – An Authorized Biography
Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri reviews Raj Khosla’s Biography
Literature
Bandaged Moments: Stories of Mental Health by Women Writers from Indian Languages – Excerpt
Extract from Bandaged Moments: Stories of Mental Health by Women Writers from Indian Languages, Edited by Nabanita Sengupta & Nishi Pulugurtha
Creative Non-Fiction
No Picnic for Me
The writer narrates an experience at her art school which leaves her with the realisation about having to fight for each bit she wanted.
Book Reviews
A Blur of a Woman by Basudhara Roy
Shweta Rao Garg reviews A Blur of a Woman by Basudhara Roy.
Creative Non-Fiction
Paper Dreams
In our house, we have an entire wall built of books. The English is so hard that even I cannot get through more than a cupboard or two.
Non-Fiction
Meditation In Athens During Wildfires
I’m pressed for time and I’m not full of longing like those poets I love who write loss is desire and vice versa. I need to peel the potatoes and carrots and that’s not sexy today.
Literature
“We’d Stumbled Out the Door”: Reclaiming Female Subjectivity in Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets
The author examines how Diane Seuss reinvents the traditional sonnet form to challenge patriarchal constructs.
Creative Non-Fiction
The Patriarchal Fantasy of the Extraordinary
The writer evokes the phenomenon of “doing” woman as soon as the epithet ‘woman’ is added to Thinker, writer, achiever, go-getter.
Book Reviews
The Grasp of Things by Aishwarya Iyer
Sudeep Ghosh reviews Aishwarya Iyer’s debut poetry collection The Grasp of Things.
Creative Non-Fiction
Winning while Losing
The writer makes the unique argument that athletic competition is not actually competition but rather mutualism, in which all the participants benefit
Literature
The Poetry of Prose Writers
Sudeep Ghosh offers snippets of some prose writers whose works do not cease to fascinate him for their levels of poetic sweep and grandeur
Creative Non-Fiction
The Loud Part of Silence
It was an innocent question asked by a little girl who could not have been more than 4 years old.
Book Reviews
The Big Book of Odia Literature edited by Manu Dash
TBR editor Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews the book and interviews the editor of The Big Book of Odia Literature.
Book Reviews
Changing, Unchanging New and Selected Poems (1995-2023) By Anju Makhija
Shabnam Mirchandani reviews Anju Makhija’s poetry collection Changing, Unchanging New and Selected Poems (1995-2023)
Creative Non-Fiction
Mukti: A Vision of India in 12 Easy Pieces
The author writes a 12 piece essay as a conduit of understanding of his experience of travelling from Delhi to Bodh Gaya and further; and to understanding himself.
Book Reviews
Symphonies of Life by Meenakshi Mohan
Anita Nahal reviews Meenakshi Mohan’s Symphonies of Life