One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator is a collection of stories by Manoj Kumar Panda centred around death, translated from Odia to English by Snehaprava Das. One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator by Manoj Kumar Panda (Purchase) In her translator's note, Das makes note of Panda's
In a constantly evolving independent scene, Raxit Tewari is somewhat of an indie veteran, though his young age will have you believe otherwise. From metal band Medusa that later metamorphosed into alternative indie act Sky Rabbit, to his solo electronica project Your Chin, he has skirted through genres with the
Sumana Roy is a writer whose poems and short stories have appeared in Granta, Berfrois, Poetry at Sangam, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Prairie Schooner, Asia Writes, Pratilipi, and elsewhere. Her essays include everything from a celebration of rhododendrons in the hills to an analysis of why the popular Dum
Sameer Kulavoor is a magpie. Obviously I don't mean that he goes about engaging in light-fingered behaviour, but that he has qualities similar to the bird's proverbial sharp eye---whether it is isolating the little details of human gestures in his latest exhibition Please Have A Seat
Kuzhali Manickavel lived in Winnipeg, Canada, until she was thirteen, after which she moved to India. Her first book, Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings, was published by Blaft Publications in 2008. The Guardian describes the stories in this collection as "weird,
The inevitability of any powerful tale is that, given enough repetition, it will quietly fold itself under the surface of our lives; waiting to see whether we recognise the familiar patterns, as we unwittingly take our own places in the story, compelled to play it out till the end. The
Can something be animated, yet unchanging? The paradox may seem whimsical---rhetorical even---but for Richard Linklater, it has been a substantial cinematic motif. The filmmaker has never orchestrated sudden growth for the sake of voyeurism, instead taking 20 years to give us this century’s most full-fledged romance in the Before
When speaking of duos, I’m often reminded of a delightfully intense article on the partnership shared by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Published as 'The Power of Two’ in The Atlantic, the piece by Joshua Wolf Shenk decodes the friendly competition that existed between the writing and composing
Kutti Revathi is a prominent Tamil poet who has published nine books of poetry. Her second book of poems titled Mulaigal (Breasts) found itself in the middle of a raging controversy in Tamil Nadu for its portrayal of female sexuality and use of Tamil words like mulaigal and yoni (vagina)
In the '70s, one of our most well-known poets, Jayanta Mahapatra, started a journal of Indian Writing in English called Chandrabhaga because there was no dedicated magazine for Indian poetry. He used to send his poems abroad which proved expensive and difficult. For years, Chandrabhaga provided a platform for
An Irani and a Parsi walk into a bar... Sounds like the setup for a hilarious joke, right? And yet the mood is far from light when Dr. Simin Patel first meets me on a rooftop bar overlooking the Radio Club in Colaba. Later, as we walk down the seafront
The Living is award-winning author Anjali Joseph’s third novel. The book, she says, was an attempt at a magic trick---to deeply stimulate the reader while appearing very little to do so. Garbed in thin flesh, the novel does indeed surprise with how much it manages to say about life