She was begging and very old...
Sometimes I longed for her touch, But she left me longing...
The perfectionist that she is, Bijoya Sawian wishes she had not destroyed so many manuscripts in the past and whose just-published "Shallow Men", set in her native Shillong - actually a novella and two short stories - has been nominated for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for 2002, instituted to honour the Nobel laureate for his ...
'Chris is coming home! ' Her heart throbbed. Chris was equally expectant,...
She says human beings have a notoriously short collective memory, and are especially good at scrubbing minds of whatever they find inconvenient or unpleasant. ...
In the midst of the gloom caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the countrywide lockdown, there is at least one bright sport, the administrators of Indias top two awards for literature – the DSC prize that has completed a decade and new entrant JCB Prize – say, adding it gives them an opportunity to re-think and re-in...
An Indian novel published in 2018 and set in various parts of Asia and Europe was uncannily prescient about the possibilities of accidental or otherwise release of biotechnology products and how it can trigger an epidemic comparable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. ...
Most great constitutional matters involve competing interests, a clash of rights. In balancing between two legitimate rights, something valuable is often lost. In the case of Sabarimala, we were looking at the deep clash between the rights of two classes of believers. It was also a clash between a very appealing broad...
Nearly seven decades after her parents "lived" the love-story of their youth through an exchange of letters, their doting daughter has now published those communication in a book form....
Read about the brutalisation of the Indian Constitution only months after it was enacted; navigate your way through the innumerable kidney transplant scams that have rocked India over the decades; and finally, learn about the apprehensions of voters as the US heads for a presidential election....
