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.

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.

There are people trying to perform day after day— Christian leaders trying to preach a wonderful sermon every week, parents trying to produce lovely children, workers putting in long hours at work—all in a desperate attempt to prove themselves. Some weeks they feel like they’ve pulled it off; other weeks it seems so fragile—as though... Continue Reading