The Middle Stage

This month, The Caravan  publishes "No-Arms" , a story by the Russian writer Andrey Platonov. Platonov (1899-1951) is now cons...

A glimpse at the list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature in the last decade shows that the Swedish committee that adjudicates ...

Books, the great American essayist and cultural critic Susan Sontag writes, “are a way of being fully human”. This is a point of view t...

One of the earliest, but least well-known, great Indian poets in English, Joseph Furtado (1872-1945) is now all but forgotten even in hi...

Arzee the Dwarf  is published in Germany this month by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in a translation by Kathrin Razum as Der kleine Kon...

This review appeared yesterday in the New York Times Book Review . A compulsive and infectious narrative restlessness marks Rajesh Par...

Any reader who has a feeling for the rigours and small miracles of novelistic composition is especially likely to be transported by the ...

This review appears today in The Washington Post . It’s most unusual to see geography as primarily a construct of the human imagination, ...

Last weekend I gave my talk "Ten Ways In Which Novels Can Change My Life" in Panjim, Goa (and this Friday I'm giving it in Pun...

Some days of one's life one feels grateful for nothing more than the simple pleasure of being alive, and among people tuned not just to ...

Here are my selections of fiction and poetry for The Caravan's March issue, with little notes on each piece: The Virgins by Irene Némi...

This essay appears this weekend on the British Council India website as part of its Dickens Bicentenary special, alongside essays on the sa...

Today, February 7, marks the two hundredth birth anniversary of Charles Dickens . This essay on a new book about Dicken's early years in...

Here are my selections of fiction and poetry for the February issue of The Caravan : Gogu Shyamala's story "But Why Shouldn'...

This review appeared last weekend in The Washington Post . As India grows into its new economic might, it also oppresses and impoverishes...