‘A Burning’ by Megha Majumdar
ChrestomatherMegha Mazumdar’s soon-to-be published A Burning is the best debut novel I have come across in a long time. In telling the story of a young Muslim girl whose life…
Letter from an 11th grader
Sir, this is to let you know that as a reader and a lover of arts, I am so glad to have read this piece of work by you. 'The…
Bathsheba Demuth’s ‘Floating Coast’
In 2018, I heard Bathsheba Demuth deliver what is possibly the best talk I have ever listened to. It was on whales and the indigenous peoples of Beringia (the region…
Letter from a Reader
Dear Sir,A decade and a half back, my elder brother (a voracious reader) gave me (an occasional reader, at best) The Hungry Tide and told me in an offhand way, "ney, pore dekhte…
Sugata Ray’s ‘Climate Change and the Art of Devotion’
Over the last couple of decades a deepening awareness of human dependence on climatic stability has created a surge of interest among historians in earlier eras of climatic disruption. Much…
Jnanpith Address
For me, as for anyone who has grown up within an Indian literary milieu, the Jnanpith is an award unto itself, possibly because it recognizes something that goes beyond literary…
David Wallace-Wells, ‘The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming’.
David Wallace-Wells’ 2018 article The Uninhabitable Earth became a sensation almost as soon as it appeared, quickly becoming the most-read piece ever to appear in New York magazine. Since then…