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Carlo Pizzati confronts the challenges of writing an ‘India book’ in his memoir ‘Mappillai’
For centuries, travellers from the West have written tomes about Indiabut no one's had the last word
5 min read5 Oct 2018‘Sabrina’: The first graphic novel on the Man Booker Prize Longlist
Nick Drnasco's grim account of a missing woman is told with minimal imagery and dialogue
2 min read5 Aug 2018The Golden Booker prize shortlist is surprising
Had the jury read all 52 novels for the Golden Booker prize, there may well have been a vastly different shortlist
4 min read31 May 2018Julian Barnes’ new novel is about the burden of an impossible love
Julian Barnes' new novel explores the dynamics of desire between a young man and an older woman
5 min read4 May 2018A beautiful moral dinosaur in the age of #MeToo
'Disgrace', among the greatest novels in English, may not be as acclaimed if it were published today. What options are writers who want to explore uncomfortable subjects left with in our age?
7 min read17 Feb 2018Chandrahas Choudhury is lost in the clouds
Chandrahas Choudhury on how writing his second novel 'Clouds' turned out to be an exercise in unlearning the lessons of the first
9 min read5 Jan 2018Gary Shteyngart: In America, no one wants to read
Gary Shteyngart on immigrant novels and the importance of good food and fluffy pillows
8 min read15 Dec 2017Always coming home
The remarkable science fiction universe of Ursula K. Le Guin gets a reboot with a new boxed set
3 min read1 Dec 2017Nobel Prize in Literature: Honouring the elusive ‘ideal’
The terms of Alfred Nobel's will leave the Nobel Prize in Literature's exact intentions tantalizingly vaguemaking the award one of the most debated
3 min read2 Oct 20176 best short and scary stories
The haunting, horror novella is rising from the dead. Here's our pick of the best ones
2 min read1 Sep 2017Popular Topics
Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared