‘Why Do You Fear My Way So Much?’, a new collection of letters and poems by G.N. Saibaba, brings us the undefeated voice of the jailed professor.| Frontline
The Assamese writer on how translated classics shaped him, living through the Secret Killings, and reversing literary hierarchies.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
This book offers a new lens on Sanskrit intellectual history by showing how bhakti, or devotional love, influenced the interpretations of the Vedas.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Anand Teltumbde’s memoir shows incarceration is all about enforcing social hierarchies, punishing the marginalised while shielding the powerful.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Choubey’s study reveals how the VKA uses service delivery to advance a larger agenda: dissolving tribal identity into undifferentiated Hindu majority.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A magical realist novel about a river with political acumen, a volume that redefines Tamil Studies, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Sugata Srinivasaraju’s book shows how a forgotten diaspora network, armed with Gandhian ideals and stubborn moral clarity, fought Emergency from afar.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Despite promising voices, this anthology on leaving offers little thematic coherence—just disparate musings that never quite land together.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
In Nautch Boy, Manish Gaekwad reflects on his coming-of-age in a Calcutta kotha, navigating queerness, class, and memory under the shadow of a tawaif mother.| Frontline
This book by an eminent practitioner of multilateral diplomacy is not only for students of international relations and serving diplomats but also for the layperson in view of its lucid presentation of complicated issues.| Frontline
R.F. Kuang exposes the corrosive allure of academia in this novel whose density is a comment on the community it describes.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The scholar and activist on the books that shaped his politics, how reading 179 books in jail kept him intellectually alive, and more.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
In writing the murder mystery ‘Truth/Untruth’, the great Mahasweta Devi takes the mickey out of the sub-genre even while soiling her hands in it.| Frontline
Matt Ridley’s “Birds, Sex and Beauty” explores how mate choice and aesthetics drive evolution, blending lyrical nature writing with deep biological insight.| Frontline
An excerpt from Believer’s Dilemma about Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s role in the Assam crisis, which ultimately resulted in the Nellie massacre of 1983.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Three anthologies of early Indian short fiction show patriarchy’s many faces—and ask whether we have moved beyond colonial-era prejudice.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The book Missing from the House spotlights a glaring deficit in India’s plural democracy—the systemic exclusion of Muslim women from political power.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Sanjaya Baru’s new book tracks how India’s wealthy are abandoning the nation, taking their money, talent, and future with them.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Pamela Philipose tracks how “reasonable restrictions” shrank into blunt instruments, leaving India’s news media framed by state, market, and law.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Why India’s Constitution is best understood as a terrain of contestation between different, often conflicting, ideas about power.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Sundar Sarukkai’s new novel captures the tensions of a transforming city—if you can get past the clichés.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The writer died last year, but his verse lives on—poetry that “stuns with its irony and melts with its pathos” while refusing comfortable lies.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
In reimagining the tribal ascetic’s tale, the author strips away layers of hierarchy to reveal the original Ramayana.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Mou Banerjee’s thought-provoking book shows how Christian conversions in colonial Bengal shaped debates on caste, inheritance, and nationalism.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Sayantan Ghosh’s book chronicles the Aam Aadmi Party’s “evolution” from anti-corruption crusader to just another political outfit seeking power.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Jahan Ara Begum ran trade routes and commissioned architecture, yet lies forgotten beside Nizamuddin’s tomb while millions visit the saint.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
An essential introduction to Nagaland through its fiction, the story of actor-director Aparna Sen’s life in cinema, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A searing review of Ingrid Robeyns’ Limitarianism, which argues that extreme wealth undermines democracy, corrodes society, and fuels inequality.| Frontline
From Dalit movements and naxalite narratives to literary legends and lost oral traditions, Rama Bhima Soma excavates Karnataka’s pluralist identity beyond Bengaluru, tracing the desi–marga divide and the lived realities of a region in cultural flux.| Frontline
Mohammad el-Kurd’s searing critique exposes how Western discourse demands Palestinians earn their humanity.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Excerpts from “The Silent Dialogues: Childhood, Caregiving, Psychiatry and Becoming” by Dr Kavita Arora.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A novel set in COVID times, a biography of M.S. Swaminathan and much more.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
This engaging biography gives a colourful account of the multilayered relationships within the Sangh Parivar and deals with a turbulent time in India.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A festschrift for C.P. Chandrasekhar turns into a sharp audit of India’s 30-year experiment with globalisation, and the cracks it refuses to fix.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
In his final book, the Kenyan writer confronts how empire colonised the African mind, and how liberation begins with language itself.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The autobiography of General S.M. Shrinagesh reflects on the military's role in democracy, offering insights and anecdotes.| Frontline
In The Bitter-Fruit Tree and Other Stories, Prakash Parienkar uncovers another Goa, where Sattari’s forests pay the price for modern progress.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
It seems entirely fitting that this vivid, slow-burning novel was awarded this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The author of A Return to Self on what it means to be a writer exiled from his home country.| | Frontline
Father-son duo Vijay and Akshay Lokapally, the authors of Net Flicks, discusses the past, present, and future of Indian badminton.| | Frontline
Guevara has many more claims to fame and continued relevance than being a mere guerilla leader and a military theorist.| | Frontline
Beginning at the moment of his death, this book moves on to capture the iconic story of Hashmi’s life and the city that formed the milieu of his work.| Frontline
Historian Shonaleeka Kaul’s new book gathers wide-ranging essays on India’s past, written without the trappings of academic jargon.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The author of The Adivasi Will Not Dance on how government censorship changed his writing approach, and more.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Remembering the poet, fiction-writer, and ethnographer Temsula Ao (1945-2022).| Frontline
The book discusses the role of the missionaries among the Nagas and argues that Christianity spread rapidly from the 1940s among them and became their window to modernity and new cultural aspirations.| Frontline
This graphic non-fiction work animates the people and places associated with the momentous event.| Frontline
Avinash Paliwal’s India’s Near East: A New History is about the complex set of forces and actors that shaped an entire region east of West Bengal, which the author terms “near east”. The “new history” is a deep dive into India’s domestic and foreign policies in three parts of this near east: one within and two outside, each politically separated from the other by international boundaries yet densely linked and sundered by identity, the flows of people and goods, and a shared co...| Frontline
An exclusive excerpt from The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra, revealing the hypocrisies of modern liberal democracies, the resurgence of ethno-nationalism, and the ideological shifts shaping the post-Gaza world, as it examines Germany’s Nazi legacy, its complex relationship with Israel, and the political contradictions defining global power dynamics.| Frontline
A fresh translation of the Tamil writer Salma’s first novel, a richly detailed study of feminist street theatre in India, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Award-winning writer Jerry Pinto reflects on his lifelong love of books, translation, and why India’s literary future depends on valuing regional language voices.| Frontline
Engerman’s Apostles of Development traces how six South Asian economists carried Cambridge ideas into the tangled politics of growth and inequality.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The uneasy fusion of two narrative modes leaves the novel stranded between adult fiction and children’s literature.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Jane Austen died 250 years ago, but her wit lives on, as this imagined letter to her sister Cassandra testifies.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
K. Srilata uses the form of dramatic monologue deftly to make five magnificent women from the Mahabharata reveal their innermost selves.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
In Lores of Love and Saint Gorakhnath, Nalin Verma and Lalu Yadav revive the saint’s syncretic legacy, contrasting it with Hindutva’s narrow politics.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Ajaz Ashraf’s Bhima Koregaon: Challenging Caste unpacks the violent clash between anti-caste movements and Brahminical forces, revealing how caste, class, and state power intersect in Maharashtra’s political landscape and the erosion of democratic rights in contemporary India.| Frontline
The writer, journalist, and human rights activist calls book bans a mark of decline. He reflects on jail readings, censorship, and how silencing authors threatens India’s democracy.| Frontline
In Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy writes of love that wounds and shelter that storms, tracing the fierce bond with Mary Roy.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Shikwa-e-Hind offers an extended, evidence-rich and calmly argued rebuff to monolithic, reified characterisations of India’s 200 million or so people of Muslim faith or culture or both. The author, Mujibur Rehman, reminds us of the complexity, richness, and variety of the country’s largest religious minority, and the intricate ways in which what he calls its “historically dense identity” is woven into India’s history and material reality.| Frontline
A controversial Hindi novel exploring queer identity now in English translation, the stories of 18 Muslim women MPs, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Jeet Thayil’s fifth novel could be commended for being boldly experimental, but the way it veers between fiction and documentary is confusing.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The untold legacy of India’s second Prime Minister whose “granular approach” shaped India’s food security and farmer rights.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The life and career of the military hero, who was posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra for gallantry in the first India-Pakistan war.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
This biography by Sachin Nandha is a work of unsubstantiated hagiography, not serious intellectual history.| Frontline
A deep dive into Dhirendra K. Jha’s critical biography of M.S. Golwalkar reveals the hidden history, ideological roots, and political strategies that shaped the RSS and its enduring impact on Indian nationalism.| Frontline
Sheela Rohekar’s Miss Samuel: A Jewish Indian Saga is a powerful novel exploring the fading Bene Israeli community in India, cultural identity, and resilience across generations.| Frontline
Sachin Kundalkar’s translated novel is a jaw-dropping achievement, packing multitudes of meaning in the space of just 111 pages.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
India’s cannabis laws ban ganja but allow bhang—why? Karan Madhok’s Ananda explores its history, medicinal potential, and farmers’ struggles under the NDPS Act.| Frontline
Thenmozhi Soundararajan calls for radical empathy and solidarity to break the cycle of inequality and injustice.| Frontline
The Silguri-born writer reflects on her provincial roots, growing up amid a scarcity of books, and why writers must resist market-driven trends to stay true to their imagination.| Frontline
Sitaram Yechury’s The Fight for the Republic exposes RSS’s Hindu Rashtra vision, linking it to fascism.| Frontline
They are written by women who have either grown up in the old city or hold it dear to their hearts and are grappling with its ever-changing landscape.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
K. Sridhar’s bold novel Ajita traverses 2,500 years to excavate a radical Indian philosophy and its inconvenient truths.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
A novel that harks back to Kerala’s naxalite movement, a book on the invisible lives that enable our digital ease, and more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
This anthology of 22 short stories translated from Tamil prompts critical reflection on identity, belonging, and the boundaries of the medium.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Omar Ahmed scans how India’s parallel cinema gave voice to the marginalised—and why it faltered in the shadow of liberalisation and majoritarian rule.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Ideas meant to challenge colonial power are now being used to justify myth and religion in India, with real costs to science and secularism.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Bishnu Mohapatra’s poetry channels rain as a political voice, articulating class and caste identities through an Ambedkarite lens of social justice.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s meditation on modern violence explores Gandhi’s last superhuman struggle, mounted in the face of communal frenzy.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The quest for the mythical river Saraswati, the legacy of the 1955 Bandung Conference on non-alignment, and much more.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
With humour, clarity, and many discomforts, Meet the Savarnas offers a long-overdue mirror to caste privilege disguised as cultural sophistication.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The mother-son story is myth. The mother-daughter story is messier, and far more honest. Indian literature has finally started telling it.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Why Pamuk, whose oeuvre is already full of autobiographical works, chose to publish yet another personal document remains a mystery.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Kavery Nambisan writes across language and history, telling a story of migration, caste, and class with an insider’s clarity.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF breaks form, tone, and expectation, and demands a reading that is anything but passive.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Ravi K. Mishra’s book attempts to reframe India’s delimitation debate with a historical approach but falls short on quantitative rigour.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People maps how Facebook grew into global infrastructure without building accountability.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
Immerse in review of Platform Ticket by Sangeetha Vallat, a charming memoir that unveils untold stories from India’s railway stations—of humour, humanity, and hard-earned dignity behind the ticket counter.| Frontline
A discerning review of The Diamond-Encrusted Rat-Trap explores how the celebrated Indian poet’s occasional prose, edited by Jerry Pinto, reveals both his literary instincts and cultural dislocations.| Frontline
Set in the shadow of Japanese invasion and Tagore’s death, this ambitious novel charts the lives of ordinary and eccentric characters navigating Calcutta’s most volatile and vibrant wartime years—with art, politics, and memory at its heart.| Frontline
In an exclusive interview, the writer, activist, and advocate reflects on her literary journey, the feminist legacy of the Bandaya movement, and how her stories confront patriarchy, social hierarchies, and the silence around Muslim women’s lives.| Frontline
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah reflects on migration, shifting identities, and how global change shapes both opportunity and exclusion in postcolonial societies, as explored in his novel Theft, and beyond.| Frontline
Rich with research and replete with anecdotes, Mani Shankar Aiyar’s book on Rajiv Gandhi is an excellent contribution to literature on the political history of India and South Asia.| Frontline
From frontline dispatches to government-aligned memoirs, a deep dive into how Indian correspondents documented the LTTE conflict—and why the full story may still remain untold.| Frontline
His essays, now in English, map a tradition negotiating colonial modernity without losing its voice.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
This exciting contribution to South Asian LGBTQ studies underscores the imagery of “boy-love” or lyric queerness as a stylistic feature of the ghazal.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The book chronicles the Burmese resistance to military rule and Mizzima’s fearless journalism under the constant threat of a brutal regime.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
A history of the subcontinent built from the stories of traders, nuns, slaves, and scholars.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Rosinka Chaudhuri’s India’s First Radicals finally gives Young Bengal its due—cutting through colonial nostalgia and nationalist myth.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
