The contested history of one of Bangladesh’s worst wartime massacres: Salil Tripathi in The Colonel Who Would Not Repent, published this...
Month: November 2014
A book on Allama Mohammad Iqbal, the famous Urdu poet who penned ‘Sare Jahan Se Acha Hindustan Hamara’, has been launched by...
Readers who have been praying fervently for an antidote to Chetan Bhagat novels will have ample reason to believe in...
In their retellings of India’s ancient past, these writers fall somewhere between shallow revisionism and ponderous pontification: Open Ashok K...
Primal Woman, a collection of translated short stories by the late Sunil Gangopadhyay reveals his preoccupation with man’s inhumanity: Open...
This biography of Allama Muhammad Iqbal redeems the philosopher-poet from political and nationalist stereotypes: Ranjit Hoskote in Open Magazine To...
What does not sell in India are poetry, translated books and literary non-fiction--in other words, the best-produced books in the...
Novelist Haruki Murakami sent a message of encouragement to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters in an acceptance speech at an awards...
Pakistani daily the Dawn reviews Zafar Anjum's Iqbal In Pakistan, much of the national energies are spent to eulogize the...
Well-known novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux today delivered a lecture titled "The Road I Travelled" at the SOTA lecture...
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