Book Review: The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie
Dr. Ramlal Agarwal reviews Salman Rushdie’s latest short story collection, The Eleventh Hour (Random House Inc, 2025), observing how it is a captivating read with its imaginative novelty but lacks an...
View ArticleEssay: The Story of Shiva and the Interconnectedness of Fate in Midnight’s...
In this essay, Hafsa Rahman analyses the story of Shiva and explores various possibilities about the interconnectedness of fate in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Midnight’s Children by Salman...
View ArticleBook Review: Victory City by Salman Rushdie
Translator and former professor Himansu S. Mohapatra reviews Salman Rushdie’s Victory City (Penguin Random House, 2023) observing how it is history, romance, allegory, feminist manifesto, and poetry...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bookmarked Musings: Victory City-Rushdie’s Magic Carpet by Ramlal Agarwal
In this essay, Ramlal Agarwal observes Salman Rushdie’s writings on India as a country in two of his major works – Victory City and Midnight’s Children. Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is another magic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Essay: Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children- Chutney and Pickles by Ramlal Agarwal
In this literary essay, Ramlal Agarwal takes us through Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children calling it a saga set in the backdrop of Partition traversing three generations of a liberal Kashmiri...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jaipur Festival: Where flows the love for literature…
Every January, India hosts the largest literary festival in the world — the Jaipur Literary festival. Founded in 2006, it gathers the glitterati of the literati in the Diggi Palace Hotel in the heart...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Anuradha Kumar travels and writes, waiting for ‘time, years probably for...
Anuradha Kumar, the author of Coming Back to the City, Mumbai Stories, in conversation with Mitali Chakravarty Anuradha Kumar has been writing for two decades and in that span of time has authored...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Short Story: The Heroic Cyclist
By Murali Kamma The cyclist at Church Square didn’t attract much attention initially, even though he was just going around in circles. Back then, in the era before cellphones and the internet, Church...
View ArticleClik here to view.
You thought it was over? The Rushdie story is not over yet!
Cover illustration for the London edition of Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote In 1981, Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children, with its focus on Partition won a Booker Prize. And now, more than...
View ArticlePerpetual motion
(From the Times Literary Supplement. Link to the complete article is given below.) “What, then, shall that language be? One-half of the committee maintain that it should be the English. The other half...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie: ‘I couldn’t finish Middlemarch. I know, I know. I’ll try again’
The author on meeting Pynchon, why Kafka is unbeatable – and the trouble with Trollope The book I am currently reading I recently visited the old mansion where Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks was set, that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Makes for “Lasting Literature”
What makes a book tick? What keeps readers coming back to a book again and again, thumbing through dog eared pages and inhaling the cloying smell of well-worn paper? What, indeed, makes one want to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Salman Rushdie Plays the Trump Card
Salman Rushdie In the pantheon of literature, the best novels manage to feel timeless even as they capture a snapshot of history, from Jane Austen examining Regency-era social mores in Pride and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rushdie stresses importance of literature
By Brittany Ruess In times when the politically powerful attempt to smother speech, renowned author Salman Rushdie said writers often ask themselves how to keep pushing forward. The answer is to keep...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why an increasing amount of South Asian writers are getting picked up by...
Gone are the days when readers would look up to international authors who had earlier set a benchmark for sophisticated literature. With Indians picking up more and more desi literature in English off...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can Rushdie and Roy save the novel in the age of Trump and Modi?
By Angshukanta Chakraborty 2017 comes bearing gifts. At a time when the United States stands “unpresidented” and Donald Trump is unable to string a simple sentence together without committing grave...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Lounge Chair Interview: 10 Questions with Swati Sengupta
By Aminah Sheikh Let’s get down to brass tacks. Why do you write? I write because I have stories to tell. Because I want to tell these stories in a particular way. Some characters, and a vague, blurry...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Major new novel from Salman Rushdie to be published this year
Penguin Random House India to publish a new novel by Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, in September 2017 Simultaneous publication: Penguin Random House India, Random House US, Jonathan Cape UK, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Literary agent Gillon Aitken of Aitken Alexander Associates passes away
Literary agent Gillon Aitken of Aitken Alexander Associates has died. Aitken died peacefully this morning (28th October) after a period of ill health. Clare Alexander said: “A towering figure in so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When literature travels from one language to another
Left to right: Rakhshanda Jalil (writer – Invisible City: The hidden Monuments of India), Urmila Pawar (Marathi writer), Radha Chakravarty (writer & translator), Nirupama Dutt (Journalist, writer...
View Article
