Aunt Lydia is an extremely powerful cog in Gilead’s machinery, privy to the dirty secrets of members in every tier of the regime’s food chain.
Books
An Ode to a Translator
How my mother's Marathi translation of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' sparked a lifetime of curiosity.
Book Extract: A Teen Girl’s Superpowers and Mental Well-Being
An excerpt from Rajoshri Chakraborti's book 'Shakti'.
Our Prime Minister, the Potterhead
Stashed carefully beneath copies of 'Hindu Rashtra Darshan' and 'Deceiving Voters 101' would be a yellowed and well-thumbed copy of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' – highlighted pages and all.
Why We Must Lower Our Expectations of Reading
One by one, slowly and steadily, I'm learning how to talk to books again.
Growing up Outside the Gender Binary: The Much-Needed Power of ‘Guthli Has Wings’
Books like 'Guthli Has Wings' could mean that the next child might not have to struggle for decades before realising that the only thing abnormal about their story is society’s …
On Murakami, Mistakes and Moving on
Murakami’s words make it okay to be worried, to be scared, to cry, to prod, to ask questions and to express negative emotions.