Indian literature
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What kind of nationalism is it to live in India and have an Arabic name?
X.T.M posts an extract from Kanhaiyalal Kapoor’s satirical story in Rakhshanda Jalil’s anthology of non-Muslim Urdu writers, in which a narrator renames and re-dresses himself to prove his Indianness, and…
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Born in Blood: a relook at the final act of Parv
A second look at the final act of S. L. Bhyrappa’s novel Parva, the retelling of the Mahabharata. The author reads its closing scenes as a study of war’s futility,…
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Book Review: Saartha – 8th Century India recreated
Nachiketa praises S. L. Bhyrappa’s novel Saartha, a first-person journey of a Brahmana in eighth-century India, for bringing a real historical world to life in its own zeitgeist, including debates…
