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All Stories for Indian Writing
Indian writers who defined the decade, from Siddhartha Mukherjee to Sujatha Gidla, Perumal Murugan
Aishwaryasahasrabudhe • 5 years agoThrough conversations with columnists, critics and authors, collated here is a list of Indian writers across several languages who created insightful literature, and delightful reading through the 2010s.
A decade in Indian writing: Jerry Pinto's fiction to Sampurna Chattarji’s poetry, notes on 10 years of reading
Aditya Mani Jha • 5 years agoThinking over the 2010s in Indian English writing for a decade retrospective, I knew that this would be, in part, a piece about growing up, writes Aditya Mani Jha
Alpa Shah on Nightmarch, her Orwell Prize-longlisted account of journeying into India’s Naxal heartland
Arshia • 6 years agoAlpa Shah’s journey through India's Naxal belt with a guerrilla platoon is documented in her 2018 book, Nightmarch. This year, the title has been longlisted for the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
Crossword Book Awards: Shashi Tharoor, Snigdha Poonam win honours at 16th edition
Fp Staff • 6 years agoRuskin Bond and Soha Ali Khan won awards in the Popular category at the latest edition of the Crossword Book Awards
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi on The Rabbit & the Squirrel, writing about friendships and love
Mallik Thatipalli • 6 years agoSiddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi speaks about how a wrote for a friend turned into an illustrated book, his writing and his affinity for the sea
Keki N Daruwalla on his latest novel Swerving to Solitude, telling an Emergency story using imagination
Nehakirpal • 6 years agoKeki N Daruwalla's latest novel is set in Lucknow and tells the story of a young journalist who is a critic of the Emergency. The story is told through the letters she writes to her mother
The Town That Laughed book review: Fictional setting fails Manu Bhattathiri's well-etched characters
Manik Sharma • 6 years agoThough The Town That Laughed draws well on the eccentricities of small-town people, it does precious little for the fictional town it is set in — Karuthupuzha
Benyamin on his new book Jasmine Days, writing about the Arab Spring and the beauty of Malayalam
Disha Sikaria • 7 years agoBenyamin speaks about the politics embedded in his works and how he uses writing as an outlet for the pain he experiences
French vs Taseer: Indians need to reclaim their history
Jagannathan • 13 years agoPatrick French thinks Indians are suspicious of foreign writers about India. It's not as simple as that, as Aatish Taseer notes in his counter-view.