Book Reviews
Dialectics of Self Knowing
Sudeep Ghosh reviews So That You Know, a collection of poems by Mani Rao.
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Non-Fiction
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Literature
150 Years of Rainer Maria Rilke
The year 2025 marks the 150th year of the birth of Rainer Rilke, and as we enter the centenary of his passing in December, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at some of Rainer Rilke’s greatest poems and how they impacted him.
Creative Non-Fiction
The Muddy Path of Tulatulahan
This essay, written by Vartan Koumrouyan, recounts the author’s experience living in rural Palawan, Philippines, during a period of relentless rain and storms.
Nature & Environment
Crying Like Wildfire
This personal essay recounts the Noro Otitigbe’s experience during the Southern California wildfires in January 2025.
Creative Non-Fiction
The Roots of Teeth and Trees
Devashish Makhija explores themes of growth, displacement, and nostalgia through this personal essay.
Nature & Environment
Photo Essay by Bishweshwar Das
Bishweshwar Das’s photo essay from Bhopal on the 41st anniversary of the Bhopal Gas tragedy.
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