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Aditya Mani Jha

Independent Journalist

Aditya Mani Jha is an independent writer and journalist living in New Delhi. He is currently working on his first nonfiction book, a collection of essays about Indian comics and graphic novels, to be published by Oxford University Press.

ARTICLES BY ADITYA MANI JHA

Indo-Pak stories in plays, films and books surpass borders. (Illustration from Sarnath Banerjee's ‘Absolute Jafar' published by Harper Collins India)

The journey to Pakistan in Indian stories

20 min read . 07 Aug 2026

’Gulabiya’ is at once a love story, a slice-of-life drama and a novel of ideas. (Getty Images )

‘Gulabiya’: An Angika classic gets a landmark English translation

4 min read . 02 Aug 2026

Detail from ’Shower at the New Yanagi Bridge’, print by Katsushika Hokusai. (Wikimedia Commons)

Geetanjali Shree's new collection of stories is woven with magic and memories

6 min read . 24 Jul 2026

Kandasamy gives us searing insights into the contemporary internet.

Any tech ends up as a tool of political capture: Meena Kandasamy

4 min read . 10 Jul 2026

'Obsession', 'Backrooms' and the rise of the YouTuber-director

5 min read . 20 Jun 2026

Marjane Satrapi in Rome, 2012. Photo: Getty Images

Exploring the versatility of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novels

4 min read . 12 Jun 2026

Bashir Badr at a reading. Courtesy Hindustan Times

How Bashir Badr built bridges with poetry

6 min read . 04 Jun 2026

In ‘Raag Darbari’s fictional village, social welfare schemes seldom reached the people. (iStockPhoto)

This satirical Hindi novel holds up a mirror to Indian society after six decades

7 min read . 31 May 2026

Kalia packs in subtle observations about different aspects of Indian society. (iStockPhoto)

Mamta Kalia’s ‘Rat Race’: How capitalism destroyed a generation of Indians

4 min read . 17 May 2026

The novel foreshadows every major NRI issues depicted in 21st century pop culture. (iStockPhoto)

Susham Bedi's 'The Fire Sacrifice': A deep dive into the NRI experience

4 min read . 19 Apr 2026

Hindi writer and poet Mahadevi Varma was an avowed Gandhian. (Getty Images)

Why Mahadevi Varma’s prose pieces feel radically modern today

5 min read . 21 Feb 2026

Mannu Bhandari and Rajendra Yadav were prolific short story writers in the 1960s and 1970s. (Penguin Random House India)

A renowned Hindi writer-couple revisit their fragmented marriage

7 min read . 15 Feb 2026

Genndy Tartakovsky’s 'Primal'

Genndy Tartakovsky's wild and wonderful cartoons

5 min read . 30 Jan 2026

Vinod Kumar Shukla

Vinod Kumar Shukla leaves behind a unique literary legacy

5 min read . 25 Dec 2025

A scene from ‘Frankenstein’.

Guillermo Del toro's ‘Frankenstein’ and his lifelong obsession with monsters

5 min read . 06 Dec 2025

A book is an artefact that belongs to the realm of the physical. (iStockphoto)

Book review: Exploring the secret history of Hindi writing

5 min read . 23 Nov 2025

The titular novella is a masterful three-dimensional portrayal set in Varanasi.. Photo: iSTOCKPHOTO

Book review: Exploring society's layers of hypocrisy in Anil Yadav's stories

5 min read . 19 Sept 2025

Luca Marinelli in 'Mussolini: Son of the Century'

A new series on the rise of Mussolini lays bare the Fascist playbook

4 min read . 11 Sept 2025

Lalu Prasad Yadav’s tenure as chief minister of Bihar was actually a time of unprecedentedly low levels of communal and caste-related violence. (Getty Images)

Ghazala Wahab’s new book looks into the ‘diseased’ heart of the Hindi belt

5 min read . 17 Aug 2025

Michael Douglas in 'Wall Street'

A new book looks at Michael Douglas and the confused American man

3 min read . 06 Aug 2025