On the day Anuradha Patwardhan left Udaipur for Bombay to marry a man she had never met in her twenty-one years of life, her mother stretched her beautiful hand through the window of the black Victoria and whispered, “In this life, my darling, there is no mercy.” Anuradha nodded respectfully, longing to ask her what […]
AnamAndré Dao Born into a Vietnamese family living in Melbourne, the narrator is haunted by the story of his grandfather, whose ten-year imprisonment by the communist government in Vietnam’s notorious Chi Hoa prison greatly influences his own standing in the world and his decision to become a human rights lawyer. As he vacillates between his […]
It is two days since Holi – the vibrant festival of colours and happiness. The normally quiet lane in the leafy Lokhandwala neighbourhood has changed and is now filled with a fleet of cars, gleaming in the spring sunshine, lining the road. Parking in this area is usually difficult on a normal day, but today […]
The independence struggle was where the idea of India was shaped and we, the people, truly determined the future we wanted. Even today, we, the people, have the right to shape our future. It is important that children learn about acts of resistance and their power to bring about change to create the country they […]
The books of the Indian writers Tashan Mehta and Indra Das – The crazy sisters of EsiAnd The Last Dragon Hunters of Bowbazar– won the categories “Best Fantasy” and “Best Novella” at the “Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards” presented at the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow. Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s book The Ten Percent Thief […]
Our city this year, Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell A city is on the brink of chaos. A society is divided along lines of belief and ideology. A playground becomes a battlefield. A threatening silence grips the public. Against this backdrop, Shruti, a writer paralysed by the weight of events, tries to […]
It was as if someone had eaten a thesaurus for breakfast and spat this collection of words – loosely reminiscent of sentences – onto a piece of paper. “Pursuit of excellence.” “Flag-bearer of free thought.” “Education ecosystem.” “Integrity, perseverance and…” wait, “awareness”! What did that even mean? Was this a school for zombies? Were the […]
