Vol. 4, Issue 2 February 2012
 
The Lede
End of Days
The Barefoot Balladeer
Time Travel
Diggi’s Days of Yore
Letters From
Israel, Nigeria
Perspectives
Politics
Misreading the Elections
Culture
The Indian Litfest Bug
Reporting & Essays
Reportage
The Defeated
Essay
Shelf Life
Arts & Reviews
Feature
So You Want to Be a DJ?
Art Review
Shots in the Dark
Books
Review
The Honey Gatherers
Essay
Clashing by Night
Editor's Notebook
Irrationally exposed at the Expo

Essay  

1 February 2012  
Essay | Clashing by Night
N KALYAN RAMAN
 
 
An epic new Tamil novel by a leading chronicler of subaltern lives...
Essay
Review
 
Published : 1 February 2012  
Essay  | Monk, Mathematician, Marxist
By ANANYA VAJPEYI

How the talented Kosambis made India modern . . .

  From the Previous Issues
 
Published : 1 January 2012  
Essay  | Reader's Writer
By SUMANA ROY

New translations introduce English language readers to the prolific Buddhadeva Bose, whose fiction drew deeply on literary Bengal . . .

Published : 1 January 2012  
Essay  | Apart from Ourselves
By NANDINI RAMACHANDRAN

What underlies the popular genre of speculative fiction? Righteousness and redemption or brutality and futility? . . .

Published : 1 November 2011  
Essay  | All the King’s Men
By ANJUM HASAN

Our world, in the imagination of postmodern novelists, is fragmented. Can writers of Hari Kunzru’s calibre put it back together again? . . .

Published : 1 October 2011  
Essay  | When Krishna Becomes Song
By AMIT CHAUDHURI

Much more than a tenet to live by, the Bhagavad Gita belongs to the playful and paradoxical domain of the poetic. . . .

Published : 1 September 2011  
Essay  | Balancing Act
By TABISH KHAIR

Anita Desai’s fiction both fulfils and challenges expectations about Indian novels in English . . .

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