This edition of The Book Review (TBR)
CURRENT ISSUE
VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 2020
The title of this novelistic memoir written in Hindi...
In these volatile times, when every word written...
Manav Kaul is not a regular writer in a sense...
Gyan ka Gyan is a multi-nodal intervention...
Coolie Lines is an extensively researched non-fiction...
Can the centuries old song of a humble washerman...
Synapse: Ratan Oak Stories is my first encounter...
In July 1947 an accomplished lawyer from England made his first...
When I began reading this novel, I realized the novel gave access...
Richard Sike’s achingly beautiful poem ‘Scheherazade’...
Reading Anamika is like getting back to a world of memories...
Many novels portray changes which have occurred in different...
Bhalchandra Joshi’s Hindi novel Jas Ka Phool (2019) addresses...
Pankaj Subeer’s novel Jinhe Jurm-e-Ishq pe Naaz...
Keelein (Nails), a collection of short stories...
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Tawaifnama is born out of Saba Dewan’s trilogy...
In September 1499 Vasco da Gama returned to Lisbon...
Who is TR Shankar Raman, the author of The Wild Heart of India?...
Yashica Dutt’s compellingly gritty tale offers points...
Ulrich Beck in his much-acclaimed book Risk Society...
Ship of Sorrows is the English translation of Qurratulain Hyder’s second novel,..
Writers and poets have always taken note of history...
Mukundan’s latest offering in translation is a collection...
The story of being useless + three contexts of a writer is a translation...
Few historical epochs of India have drawn as much attention...
The accepted wisdom about Vijay Tendulkar’s plays is that they are about power and violence...
As lecturers and critics, we routinely perform...
From the very beginning, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer’s writing grips you...
An ardent Punjabi, having lived all my life outside of the Punjab...
When the characters the author weaves in Lajja...
Gender-based violence has taken many forms...
There are hardly any women fiction writers in Hindi...
Sudha Om Dhingra is an Indian diasporic writer from Jalandhar...
Mumbai City is arrested by a sooty grey haze...
The Daughter from a Wishing Tree is the fourth in a series of books...
As someone who has never been drawn to reading non-fiction personally...
First Prize (Rs.10000): Megalomania, by JoBeth Ann Warjri
Second Prize (Rs.7500): Not A Day For Outings, by Armaan
Third Prize (Rs.5000): Her Day, by Santanu Das
Congratulations!
We will be reaching out to the winners individually.
We would like to thank all participants for an overwhelming and enthusiastic response.