Book Review

A Book Of Essays Spanning A Translators Career Shows Why Translation Matters
Paul St-Pierres Translating Odisha shows readers how translations, if used well, can be dynamite.
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Parveen Babis New Biography Is Marred By The Authors Limited Understanding Of Mental Health
The book provides credence to rumours and uses conversations with ex-lovers to tell Parveen Babis story, primarily through the lens of mental illness.
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Book Review: Anukrti Upadhyay's 'Kintsugi' Traces The Many Ways By Which The Heart Remakes Itself
In this novel named after ruptures and remakings, the most striking breaks that some of its characters make are from the expectations they were raised with.
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What Can Theatre Do?, Asks A New Biography On Safdar Hashmi
Through this book, Safdars colleague Sudhanva Deshpande has brought to painful life the especial mix of talent, camaraderie and commitment to human values that Safdar was made of.
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This Book Will Make You Happy To Be A Single Woman
This collection of essays by 13 happily unmarried women, edited by Kalpana Sharma, is a welcome attempt at redefining the normal, one decision, one choice at a time.
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Can Single Women In Indian Books Live Happily Ever After?
While many books, films and TV shows look at singleness as a temporary state of being, a handful of Indian novels explore the lives of women who are not wives, girlfriends or mothers.
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Avadhoot Dongare's Novels Offer a Fascinating Look At Young Indians' Existential Crises
'The Story of Being Useless' and 'Three Contexts of a Writer' root for a meaningful life.
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Keshava Guhas Accidental Magic Delves Into Harry Potters Fandom But Fails To Enchant
'Accidental Magic' switches back and forth between the perspectives of four adults whose lives become connected through JK Rowlings novels.
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His Fathers Disease: Aruni Kashyap Examines The Idea Of Home
Kashyap subverts the myth of home as a safe haven.
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Manjul Bajajs In Search Of Heer Is A Subversive Retelling Of A Legend
This beautifully narrated book is a shining example of how an authors imagination can make a reader look at an age-old and seemingly inviolable rendition in a new way.
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