Nawaid Anjum
‘The human figure made out of trash bags says a lot’
Q. Your show draws on the multiplicity of human identities. How crucial was the theme for your first solo in India?
‘The prose needs to have some elements of poetry’
Tishani Doshi’s deliciously lyrical debut novel, The Pleasure Seekers, draws on the story of her parents, her Welsh mother and Indian father, whom the book makes a dedication to.
Artist explores threads of personal, collective identity
Debesh Goswami’s show “Uprooted” was held at the Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi from July 19 to July 25.
Consciousness takes centrestage
Consciousness is all set to get into the groove as “Chaitanya: A Contemporary Choreographic Work”, brought to us by Sadhya: A Unit of Performing Arts, sets in motion at the India Habitat Centre in New
Love & loss in maximum city
Anjali Joseph’s debut novel, Saraswati Park, piques your interest when you look at its rather interesting cover with Amit Chaudhuri’s seemingly screaming line: “The best debut novel I have read for a
‘I’m curious about science as a form of philosophy’
The men you meet in Manu Joseph’s mordantly funny, painfully clever and brilliantly observant debut, Serious Men (Fourth Estate), are the men driven by their convictions, by the things they hold dear:
Hay fever to grip Kerala in November
The stage is set for the literati to make “hay” while the literary sun shines as that carnival of a literature festival, Hay-on-Wye, holds the first edition of its India chapter in Thiruvananthapuram
Soup curry
Author Raksha Bharadia, editor of the bestselling Indian Chicken Soup series, set out on the “Westland-Landmark Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul Tour” at the Landmark bookstore in Gurgaon on Sunday.
