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‘Longing and loneliness infuse my work’: Sanjana Thakur, 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner
Scroll· 18 hours agoTwenty-six-year-old Sanjana Thakur is the newest winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. A recent graduate of the MFA in Fiction programme at the University of Texas Austin’s New Writers ...
Modi's chutzpah is his nemesis
The Week· 18 hours agoWhen the actual election results turned the exit poll predictions topsy-turvy, we had a week of euphoria in which we thought “We, the People” had rescued democracy; curtailed authoritarianism ...
Tavleen Singh writes: Criticism we cannot ignore
Indian Express· 19 hours agoNow that the Prime Minister has won a third term and there is a solid opposition block in the Lok Sabha, it is my fervent hope that we can go back to...
UN Human Rights office urges review of India's UAPA
The New Indian Express· 1 day agoNEW DELHI: The UN Human Rights office has expressed concern about the use of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) to silence critics in India....
Rainbow Reads: 6 Books That You Can Read with ‘Pride’!
The Telegraph· 1 day agoThe month of June is associated with the LGBTQ+ Pride movement. To that purpose, we have handpicked...
Mob attacks cops during anti-encroachment drive in J-K's Kathua district
Business Standard India· 2 days agoAt least five police personnel, including a deputy superintendent of police, were injured on...
Drop UAPA cases against Arundhati Roy, Showkat Hussain: UN Human Rights Office to Indian authorities
Scroll· 2 days agoThe United Nations Human Rights Office on Thursday urged the Indian authorities to drop the cases lodged against author Arundhati Roy and former Central ...
UN Human Rights Office urges Indian officials to drop cases against Arundhati Roy over remarks on...
The Hindu· 2 days agoUN human rights office criticizes India's use of anti-terror law to silence critics, calls for...
K R Meera writes: Why sanction to prosecute Arundhati Roy under UAPA or her PEN Pinter Prize win...
Indian Express· 2 days agoAfter the Emergency, no other government has taken writers and artistes as seriously as the Modi...
5 must-read books by booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things (1997)
The Economic Times· 3 days agoArundhati Roy's debut novel won the Booker Prize in 1997, is a richly textured story set in Kerala,...