Books

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE For many professionals, midlife does not arrive with a dramatic collapse. It comes more quietly, often in the middle of an otherwise

BY DR. QAISER MUKHTAR* Aisha Sarwari’s Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours is an emotionally candid memoir that moves across childhood, marriage, illness, motherhood, migration, and

BY MIRA THAKKAR* The connection between conducting microplastic research and writing a psychological thriller may seem completely nonexistent, but college researcher Arya Upadhyay has shown

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE On Mullingar Hill by Dr. Joyce Flueckiger, published by Primus Books, New Delhi, is an evocative, deeply humane work that gently dissolves the

BY DR. QAISER MUKHTAR(From the book Grammar of Daughters) A mother’s love, shaped by what she lost, struggles to find its way through what she

BY BINDU MANOJ* Atlanta-based Indian American poet Jina DCruz’s debut poetry collection, Lightning in a Bottle, was recently named a 2025 American Writing Awards Finalist

BY MAHADEV DESAI It is heartening to know that literary festivals are proliferating in India; not only literature but also more creative and imaginative fare

BY VEENA RAO* “In these pages, my mother, my gangster, shall live. She was my shelter and my storm.” Arundhati Roy’s exquisite memoir Mother Mary

BY VEENA RAO* “If you don’t have love, you don’t properly exist. If you don’t properly exist, you don’t have love.” Kiran Desai’s Booker short-listed