Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland. The Lowland, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. Other contenders for the Prize this year include Colm Tóibín (The Testament of Mary), Jim Crace (Harvest), NoViolet Bulawayo (We Need New Names), Eleanor Catton
 I take you like a paper doll and crumple you because I find that the noise you make drowns out the real sound of your bones ageing and you fading. Shruti is a 24-year-old literature postgraduate from Jawaharlal Nehru University. By day she’
Nitoo Das is a teacher, poet, and photographer. She teaches English Literature at Indraprastha College for Women at the University of Delhi. Her poems have appeared in national and international publications such as Tehelka, Muse India, Pratilipi, Eclectica, Poetry International Web, and elsewhere. Her book of poems, Boki, was published
She fell in love with a Muslim boy. She had never eaten meat in her life. They had to run away to get married. It became quite impossible to do otherwise. Their families met each other, and decided it was too difficult for them to get along, religion-wise. So they
It is fifteen minutes to curtain call and Shekhar is frantic because he cannot find his salangai. He has overturned his suitcase in the green room and the platform is littered with empty jewellery cases, spare silk sashes, bunches of silver- and gold-coloured safety pins, and an assortment of makeup
Amitava Kumar’s recently released biography of Patna opens with a lurid account of rats in the city: they are voracious hunters of the night, debauched drunkards, destroyers of crops, thieves of grains, and despoilers of libraries. These residents of the chthonic city pay nocturnal visits to the surface to
We name everything. It is an act of god. This journey has a name somewhere. In the lexicon of romances, where there is a genus and a species for every type of connection, there is a name for this as well. Here, words (which are not simply words) are not
Aaargh---promoter collective Culture Shoq’s new heavy music division---started the Bombay Asylum series of gigs in June this year, to give metalheads in Mumbai something to look forward to every month. Most popular live music venues in the city have tended to ignore Indian metal bands in recent times, and
Jointly administered by the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize was instituted in 2009 by the Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust to recognise excellence in Indian poetry written in English. The award is highly regarded and consists of a citation, along with a cash
