Rahul Singh, author of Unfolding, is an Assistant Professor in sociology at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. This is his debut novel. He has also written short stories that have been published in various literary magazines and journals, including Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature, Foglifter and the Economic and Political Weekly. Unfolding invites readers to slow down […]Read More
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Aletta André and Abhimanyu Kumar have brought out a thoroughly researched book on much publicised Malcha Mahal ‘royals’, titled ‘The House of Awadh, a Hidden Tragedy‘. Read More
Bharat, we are made to believe has had no original inhabitants. Mainstream historians have depicted Bharat as a barren land where various races and cultures arrived at different times. But there are many, like Journalist-Author Utpal Kumar who strongly debunk the Aryan invasion theory, calling Vedic and Harappan civilizations two sides of the same coin. […]Read More
A former Professor of English at New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University where he worked in the areas of English and Indian literary studies, especially Urdu, Prof Anisur Rahman is a critic and translator with four volumes of poetry translations to his credit. He recently came out with ‘The Essential Ghalib’, which is simply a […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Part travelogue, part memoir, part family history and imbued with rigorous scholarship, The Other Mohan (HarperCollins Fourth Estate) by author Amrita Shah is not just a labour of love, but also a quest to understand her great-grandfather, Mohanlal, who set sail for South Africa from pre-independent India at the turn of twentieth century. […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Since its inception in 2000, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), the Pakistan-supported South Asian terrorist group has been responsible for countless terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir. Jaish-e-Mohammed (HarperCollins India) is the first detailed and comprehensive study of JeM. Authored by Abhinav Pandya, it examines the origins of this organisation, its ideology, organisational structure, financing, […]Read More
Chandan Pandey is the author of four short-story collections and two novels in Hindi. He has been honoured with many awards including the Bharatiya Jnanpith’s Navlekhan Award. Sayari Debnath, a journalist at Scroll, translates Hindi and Bengali literature to English. “I wrote these stories in the grips of unrelenting restlessness. I look keenly at the […]Read More