[ad_1] In May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi marks 12 years in office. Given the country’s median age of 29, roughly half of all Indians – nearly 750 million people – have never known a different national leader as adults. Although the Bharatiya Janata Party that he represents had previously been in power, Modi’s landmark 2014 … Read more
[ad_1] What do our reading choices say about us? When teaching creative writing and literature classes, I always ask my students about their favourite genres and current reading in the first week. It is a good way to get a sense of their interests, gauge how they will respond to set texts, and get them … Read more
[ad_1] Would you like to thumb your nose at Zuckerberg? Stick your tongue out at Google and Apple? They have power and money only because they have figured out how to control our attention and steal our time. The weapon to fight them is obvious, simple and old-fashioned – a book. If you’re like me, … Read more
[ad_1] Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker Prize-winning short story collection Heart Lamp is littered with a gamut of affecting objects and people: callous husbands, self-serving mutawallis, loving children, and women of all stripes. These women are, by turns, sexy, demanding, abstruse, and suffering. Kate McLoughlin notes in the Times Literary Supplement: “here are wicked in-laws, bedazzled … Read more