The Middle Stage

In the last half-century, what has united African-American civil rights campaigners in the American South in the 1960s, anti-apartheid demon...

“On the afternoon of October 23, 2006, Jeffrey Skilling sat at a table at the front of a federal courtroom in Houston, Texas.” Not too ha...

Late last year I met a reader and writer in Delhi, Juhi Basoya, who later sent me a list of quite specific questions about the composition o...

I've just published a long essay, "The Middlemen" , bringing together my thoughts on both the general subject of Indian litera...

A survey of the best non-fiction of 2009 is here . The Tamil writer Salma’s The Hour Past Midnight (Zubaan) tells the story, and the ...

Here are The Middle Stage's favourite nonfiction books of 2009: MG Vassan ji's A Place Within (Penguin in India, Random House in C...

Coming up over the next fortnight on The Middle Stage : as in 2008, two long essays on the best fiction and the best non-fiction that'...

Like Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the literary journal Civil Lines has for many years been an entity thought by most to be dead, even as ...