Virginia Woolf

Inside Dharini Bhaskar’s debut These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light, longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020

The novel is a work of literary fiction rich in beautifully-crafted sentences, with myriad literary, mythological, and philosophical references, which she hopes a reader will engage with in a genuine way.

COVID-19 has robbed Indian women of their hard-won privacy — that obscure thing society thinks they don't need

As women, we wear our confinement as our second skin. In return, what we have carved out is our own space — a necessity that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken away

Van Gogh's birth anniversary on 30 March observed as World Bipolar Day 2020: All you need to know about mental disorder

Every year, 30 March, which is the birth anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh, is observed as World Bipolar Day to raise awareness, acceptance, and funding for the condition

Understanding mental illness: The path to recovery from trauma, and the fight to regain the self

In spaces of trauma, we are forced to see the other as a subject and ourselves as the object. It makes us abandon ourselves when the subjective pain becomes unbearable. By walling off some of the pain, we are able to continue to function. But we end up walling off some of our selves too.

Google Doodle celebrates Mrs Dalloway writer Virginia Woolf's 136th birth anniversary

The Google Doodle depicts Mrs Dalloway author Virginia Woolf's now iconic profile, surrounded by the autumn leaves that were a recurring visual motif in her work | #FirstCulture

'A politics without dreams is arid and barren': Ben Okri at the Kolkata Literary Festival

Reading, to Ben Okri, leads to imagination and thought, most importantly clarity of thought, bringing about a gradual understanding of the many-fingered problems that plague us.

Chetan Bhagat should write letters on behalf of more people

Before dissing Chetan Bhagat and raising eyebrows at how he could possibly write a letter as an Indian Muslim Youth, people should realise that the literary device of writing in the voice of someone who isn’t you has been employed has only been used by bravest and most talented of writers.