I’d always been fascinated with printmaking. When I saw the brilliant art that Samidha Gunjal (@gdhamisa) had been making, I couldn’t help but pick a set up for myself and get to work! I will not bother you with boring details of what Lino Cutting is and what not. I’m…

Young indie authors, Mehak Walia and Trupti Kadni on their first venture in writing manage to do what I have been dreaming of (and been putting off) for years now — write a book. The Perfect Literarian aims to bring a few things YA seems to be obsessed with, at…

If you’re looking for a book that makes you laugh inappropriately in metros and parks, this is not it. What it is, is a mesh of damaged, eccentric yet likeable characters who evolve as the story progresses. They start off as caricatures — an 84-year-old Ukrainian widower obsessed with tractors…

This is a question I often get asked in a moment of exasperation by students and friends alike. Why read poetry? Most of it doesn’t even make sense, I cannot understand it, I have never liked it. These are thoughts I have endeavoured to deal with, myself. …

A true discovery of Indian Literature in English and in translation only began through my English Masters curriculum — it took a while to make peace with the fact that my college did not have Shakespeare/Keats/Yeats but had names like Raja Rao, Anna Akhmatova and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. …

New worlds opened up to me as I stepped into the realm of Russian Literature. Never before had I seen language used this way (owing to my lack of experience, I’m sure) — fluid and natural — like silk woven into fabric. …

My fascination for stories stemmed from the ones I’d listen to as a child. We never had television at home so I’d turn to my father or my uncle during the evenings as they sat sipping filter coffee with Kishore Kumar playing in the background. …

Convocations are bitter-sweet. A strange sense of nostalgia and introspection accost you. While it feels amazing to move on to the “next phase” you carry an inexplicable fear of what’s to come. This is a letter I have been writing in my head since the last batch of students graduated…

They say it takes 21 days to form a habit but three months to cultivate it. With books, however, its another ‘story’ (get it? …