Paromita Chakrabarti

American Indologist Wendy Doniger, whose memoir ‘For the Love of Stories: Confessions of An Accidental Feminist’ is now out, speaks about the dangers of provocation in academia and why she would not advise students to follow in her footsteps today

A nation that cannot argue about its future — that treats the economist’s dissent, the historian’s revision, the stand-up comic’s satire as inconvenient noise — loses not just the capacity to correct itself but the possibility of imagining something different from what it has

The Kannada writer and author of 'Ghachar Ghochar' has launched a journal, publishing house and digital platform to bring Indian-language writing to a global readership

Within a single week, in West Bengal, the ruling party and its affiliates came to be the proponent of a purity campaign and its most conspicuous violator

The Women's Prize longlisted author on her new family drama, Some People, flailing heroines, fraying families, and characters who refuse to behave

Since the horrific 2012 New Delhi gang rape, and more recently the rape and murder of a resident doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, India's constitutional guarantee of equality has been bolstered by a spate of further reforms — fast-track special courts, harsher sentences, a wave of new legislation — sit alongside a female workforce that has expanded exponentially.

Carson's distinction lies in her easy ability to transcend genres — be it poetry, fiction, criticism or memoir.

Ancient Greece meets modern longing in these five key works of the Canadian poet

Ancient Greece meets modern longing in these five key works of the Canadian poet

Withdrawal of an Irish writer's books from the UK market opens up a wider conversation about celebrity activism, commercial pressure and the fallout of taking a stand