Book Reviews
Midnight’s Borders by Suchitra Vijayan
J.G.P. MacAdam reviews Suchitra Vijayan’s book Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India
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Non-Fiction
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Creative Non-Fiction
Oxygen to the Brain
The author, along with her family, go for a snowboarding post-quarantine vacation and she discovers, among other things, layers of meaning in Frost’s poem.
Creative Non-Fiction
My Baba, Myself
The author and her daughter relate to their roots via the ashtonishing route of blueberries and how it represents the author’s grandmother.
Literature
A Way of Seeing: How to write like a Woman
The author circumnavigates the world of literature, along with the intent of discovering the know-how of women writers and comes back satisfied.
Book Reviews
Our Many Longings – Contemporary Short Fiction from Bangladesh: Edited by Sohana Manzoor
Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews a collection of contemporary short fiction from Bangladesh edited by Sohana Manzoor.
Book Reviews
Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Ghalib
Sekhar Banerjee reviews Mirza Ghalib’s poems on Banaras
Creative Non-Fiction
Riding to Ladakh
The author experiences the idiosyncratic romance of riding 2 wheels into Himalayan valleys and crosses paths never crossed before.
Culture
Shades of White
The author’s courageous attempt to create a near-perfect amalgamation of colors, heritage and cultures is met with unforeseen hurdles. Helpless, the author calls herself a white woman with a dark story.
Book Reviews
A Beautiful Decay by Karan Madhok
Kiran Bhat reviews Karan Madhok’s novel, A Beautiful Decay.
Creative Non-Fiction
Searching for Baldwin During Pride Month
The author takes a walk across bookstores in search for James Baldwin and for the metaphor it represents.
Nature & Environment
Little friends, we made in God’s own country
The author and his wife dive deep inside the tranquility promised by God’s own Country.
Non-Fiction
When You Think of Tolstoy
The author’s friendship with Ira, a Ukrainian, whom she had met on a Facebook page for animal lovers, turns into something far more than mere friendship as Russia wages War on Ukraine.
Literature
War, Grief, and Ukrainian Independence
In Conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude, or the Importance of a Story” and Olesya Khromeychuk’s A Loss
Book Reviews
Black Metamorphoses by Shanta Lee Gander
Jon Lawrence reviews Shanta Lee Gander’s poetry collection, Black Metamorphoses.
Creative Non-Fiction
Almost Matilda
Having read Dahl’s Matilda at 11 herself and then experiencing multiple cultures; the author goes through one end of the spectrum of not reading to the other end of the spectrum of becoming a bibliophile.
Creative Non-Fiction
The Heart is a City
The author’s experience of living in a new city is marred and streaked by the effect the city has on her, mentally as well as physically. She traverses the divide as best as she possibly can and finds herself short of being understood.
Book Reviews
Birds of the Snows by Tarannum Riyaz
Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews Tarannum Riyaz’s novel, Birds of Snows.
Creative Non-Fiction
Why I Grew Up Wishing My Mother Were Dead
The author undertakes an uncomfortable journey of acceptance and tells a tale of a tumultuous relationship she shares with her mother.
Cinema
Evolution of Film Publicity Art
Film historian and archivist of vintage film memorabilia, SMM Ausaja, takes us down memory lane of the evolution of Film publicity in the Indian Movie Industry.
Creative Non-Fiction
In-between Emotions: A Triptych
The author translates, among other things, the relationship she shares with Bombay, the city of her birth; how she has accepted and made peace with the method in its madness.
Memoirs
The Dreams of a Mappila Girl
In the preface to her memoir, the author B. M. Zuhara writes, “I grew up at a time when Muslim girls did not even have..
Literature
Proximity to—and from—Bodies: The Civil War Poetry of Whitman & Dickinson
The author studies the seemingly dichotomous take on war in Walt Whitman’s and Emily Dickinson’s poetry; and argues for the congruency it attains underlining sufferings and deaths. Further, she notes the heavy usage of punctuations in Dickinson’s war poetry and theorizes what it represents.
Book Reviews
From Threnody to Laughter: A Review of Shikhandin’s After Grief
Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews Shikhandi’s poetry collection, After Grief.
Creative Non-Fiction
Bird House
The author goes through the pandemic along with a change of residence and lifestyle. A bird lover since childhood, she learns a lot more as she lives along side Woodpeckers and Hummingbirds.