Fifty Year Road review

From Indira to Modi: Reviewing Bhaskar Roy’s Fifty Year Road through India’s shifting politics

Bhaskar Roy’s Fifty Year Road: A Personal History of India offers a captivating blend of personal anecdotes, political insights, and reflections on India’s socio-political landscape over the past five decades. This memoir, or to put it more aptly, a personal-political commentary, charts the country’s transformation from the mid-1960s to the present day, offering readers a […]

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The Story of a Brief Marriage | Anuk Arudpragasam

‘The Story of a Brief Marriage’ (2016)– A tale of love and surrender

Anuk Arudpragasam’s ‘The Story of a Brief Marriage’ is a remarkable feat of sensitivity and imagination, a meditation on the fundamental aspects of human existence—eating, sleeping, washing, touching, speaking—that give us direction and purpose even amidst collapsing worlds. Spanning a single day and night, this unflinching debut confronts marriage and war, life and death, endowing […]

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