How and why religious and social customs continue to dictate where women can go, whom they can worship with and how their bodies should be regarded.

In Pinky Brahma Choudhury’s Duphang-Ni Solo, a Gaan tale of a grieving mother asks how many more families in Assam must lose their children before the mourning stops.

Translated from Telugu by Jayashree Mohanraj

As he interrogates Kannada literary history over the last century, Rajendra Chenni sees it as neither a celebration of masterpieces nor a catalogue of movements, but an inquiry into power, memory, and language.

This book by a former bureaucrat makes a persuasive case for balancing the material and non-material dimensions of life and building happiness indices into governance, but ultimately remains within a safe analytical perimeter.

Sahil Wakode’s story is eerily similar to other cases of student suicides at IIT Bombay. The common thread is the complaint of caste discrimination.

Minakshi Thakur’s sensitive and poignant novel is about ways of seeking closure after the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

This anthology of queer writing in India is suffused with the language of US identity politics and the liberal emptiness of the diversity, equity, and inclusion model, which does not change structures at all but merely assimilates difference.

Montage, the technique that once revolutionised cinema, has now become the very thing chaining the film to itself, shrivelling all its possibilities into one resolved meaning.

A cycle of governance failures, official denials, and attacks on critics is eroding public trust and deepening the Modi government’s crisis of legitimacy. The Election Commission controversy is its latest example.

CCTV footage of Sahil Wakode’s final exam, leaked before any inquiry, was aired on a loop, and his parents were grilled about it on television. Why?