Anand Arungundram is one of those authors who seem to understand what he exactly needs to do in order to deliver to his reader base the best piece of literature they want. His novel The World's Oldest, Most Powerful Secret…
Jeet Thayil's poetry collection, Collected Poems, published by Aleph Books in 2015, was on my reading desk last week. Though I remember purchasing this collection the previous year, perhaps in December. However, my busy schedule and encounters with other poets…
Novel: The Tailor’s Needle Author: Lakshmi Raj Sharma Publication: 2012, Penguin India (Indian Edition) Number of Pages: 336 Genre: Raj Novel, Pre-Independence Novel Style: Traditional In the journey of Indian English literature, there have been many occasions when the…
Book: The Penthouse Author: Niraj Sharma Publication: Ashvamegh Publication, 2019 Pages: 255 Genre: Crime Thriller Niraj Sharma's crime imagination travels to various dimensions and eventually reaches the destination where a criminal begins to think about his past, present and…
I accept that writing poetry does mar my objectivity as a poetry critic. However, I will also maintain that it is not a usual business and it only happens at times. As a reader who reads my critical opinions on…
The activities of the USA, after the Second World War, have always been interpreted in binaries - either approved or disapproved by various people who scrutinise these actions. It is, for obvious reasons, a fashion among intellectuals (somebody please define…
Indian English Poetry, as a whole, is an IDEA that has always struck me in full glory! And now that I have the honour of conducting my research (within the domain of English literature and comparative analysis with literature in…
There are different layers of non-fiction and arousing non-fiction, I say, is the most active art of writing non-fiction. So, what is that you may ask. For me, a book in the non-fiction genre that lets your hair rise and…
It has been long since I read something of serious nature in terms of 'true non-fiction'. Recently, I asked the Orient BlackSwan for a copy of India, The West, and International Order, edited by Kanti Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu. Published…
What has been the 'best' lie you have been told at your school? What has been the biggest secret kept from you as an Indian citizen? What do you think are the greatest jobs of deception Indian governments have…
