Diaspora in Search of Cultural Heritage
(Introduction to ‘a box of mangoes’ by Vihaari Godavarthi) Migration is both transformative and paradoxical: it compels families to reimagine themselves in unfamiliar…
Category: In English
Acknowledge the loss! It’s yours.
Written by: Lakshmi Devi ************ The first paragraph of Shashi Tharoor’s ‘The Era of darkness’ shows briefly what happened back then. Now, people…
Q&A with Nishanth Injam
Nishanth Injam is the author of the short story collection “The Best Possible Experience”, published by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random…
Q&A with Deepa Bhasthi, Writer and Translator
Deepa Bhasthi is a writer based in Kodagu, southern India. Her essays on literature, politics, and cultural criticism have been published in over forty…
Q&A with Tamraparni Dasu on translating from Telugu to English
“I personally feel that editing a translation is much tougher, like verifying someone else’s code to ensure it does what it purports to do, while editing an original is more like debugging. But that’s purely my opinion. “
“Pippi in the south seas” and “Gustavo, the shy ghost”
Written by: Mihira Vinnakota (Mihira, our youngest contributor so far, is a 8 year old third grader from Ottawa) ******** PIPPI IN THE…
Review of Roller Girl and Click, Clack, Moo
Written by: Mihira Vinnakota (Mihira is a 3rd grader living in Ottawa, Canada – making her our youngest contributor so far.) ******* ROLLER…
Kakka by Vemula Yellaiah
By: Mani Rao Here are some notes after reading Kakka. They are not meant to be comprehensive, nor like a review (with a…
Savitribai Phule and I: Sangeeta Mulay
Article by: Rituparna Sengupta (This note was first published on Facebook by Rituparna. We thank her for permitting us to put up it…