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    Books | Is it possible to do no harm in Jaffna?Books
    Books | Is it possible to do no harm in Jaffna?

    The Sri Lankan civil war, fought across nearly three decades, is said to have claimed up to a hundred thousand lives,...

    29 March 2025 8:28 PM

    Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’Books
    Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’

    It may be said of literary careers, if you don’t mind humouring a simplistic analogy from Hindustani classical...

    22 Feb 2025 7:16 AM

    Book Review | A vacuous Delhi in monochrome and monotoneBooks
    Book Review | A vacuous Delhi in monochrome and monotone

    What do we make of disgusting literature? Aesthetic theories of art and ‘good taste’, across various...

    18 Jan 2025 6:49 AM

    Book Review | Portrait of an open woundBooks
    Book Review | Portrait of an open wound

    In many ways, Sharankumar Limbale’s novel Sanatan is a history of the present, examining as it does the...

    21 Dec 2024 7:32 AM

    Book Review | Spare, brutal, rural Maharashtrian noirBooks
    Book Review | Spare, brutal, rural Maharashtrian noir

    It has proven particularly difficult to write fiction in English about the present. Indeed, arguably the...

    26 Oct 2024 6:30 AM

    Book Review | An uncle’s-eye view of modern IndiaBooks
    Book Review | An uncle’s-eye view of modern India

    A man ties a woman to a chair and runs a live auction where figures from her past bid money to decide her fate

    21 Sept 2024 7:44 AM

    Book Review | Whither identity without politics?Books
    Book Review | Whither identity without politics?

    “While reading a headline about Kashmir a few years ago,” writes Priyanka Mattoo in her new memoir, “I...

    17 Aug 2024 7:18 AM

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