When my mother’s mother began to die of a mysterious, undiagnosable neurological illness, the first thing she lost was her...
Month: June 2017
By Aminah Sheikh Each of the authors interviewed for Kitaab’s Lounge Chair have been unique, and this email interview with...
“We are not a reading people, and there are light years between civilization and us,” my high school principal in...
Jnanpith award winner Girish Karnad traced the tradition of storytelling to its evolution as a folklore and ballad to eventually...
Arundhati Roy’s eagerly-awaited second novel goes on sale worldwide on Tuesday, two decades after her prize-winning debut The God of...
Let’s get down to brass tacks. Why do you write? To be honest, I haven’t enjoyed writing for a long...
As the British poet-novelist CS Lewis once famously said, “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It...
