Rereadings

The Netflix show conveys the wonder but not the pace of the book.

Netflix can’t steal Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s thunder

6 min read . 09 Feb 2025

The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles, ca. 1695. (Getty Images)

Stephen Fry's ‘Odyssey’: The appeal of classical stories

5 min read . 10 Nov 2024

A still from David Lean’s film ‘A Passage to India'

The hundred Indias we inhabit

5 min read . 07 Oct 2024

Czech sculptor David Cerny’s kinetic work entitled ‘The Metamorphosis’, in Prague. (Getty Images)

Franz Kafka and the truth we are afraid of

5 min read . 08 Sep 2024

Born in 1947, Paul Auster cut a unique figure among his contemporaries. (AP)

Paul Auster: A rare cultural icon who engaged and entertained

5 min read . 09 Jun 2024

Chughtai has been called the first feminist Urdu writer. Courtesy Istockphoto

The persistence of human perfidy

5 min read . 04 May 2024

It is impossible to miss Nirala’s rage against the capitalist machine or his empathy for the wretched. (iStockphoto)

Nirala's portraits of rage and love

5 min read . 13 Apr 2024

When Hyder visited the Urdu Academy in Lucknow, she remarked that the institution had become stuck in a time warp, like the language it fostered. (Getty Images)

Qurratulain Hyder: A writer of a divided world

5 min read . 02 Mar 2024

Sharmistha Mohanty in her Mumbai home in 2015. (Mint photo)

Writing at a tangent to market forces

5 min read . 04 Feb 2024

doesn’t hesitate to change her mind, revisit an idea with a reformed perspective, like the public grief over Diana's death. (Getty Images)

A masterclass by Hilary Mantel

5 min read . 14 Jan 2024

Pigs are, by definition, self-serving and corrupt. (iStockphoto.)

‘Beasts of England’: When the world is going to the pigs

5 min read . 03 Dec 2023

There’s war that’s fought with bombs and guns; and then there’s war waged over the minds and hearts of the young. (iStockphoto)

The relevance of Marjane Satrapi's ‘Persepolis’ today

5 min read . 05 Nov 2023

Edith Grossman (right) with writer Rosalie Knecht, 2012. (Wikimedia Commons)

Edith Grossman: The translator as a writer

5 min read . 06 Oct 2023

A still from ‘The Adventures Of Tintin’, 2011

Taking a fresh look at Tintin

5 min read . 10 Sep 2023

The epic journey of ‘Magadh’ winds its way through cities such as Kashi. (iStock.)

‘Magadh’: A poetic landscape where kingdoms rise and fall

5 min read . 06 Aug 2023

'The Wheel Spins' inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s 1938 adaptation, 'The Lady Vanishes'. (Wikimedia Commons)

Revisiting the novel that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's ‘The Lady Vanishes’

5 min read . 10 Jul 2023

There’s an uncanny feeling of déjà vu on re-reading Manju Kapur’s novel. (iStock)

Freedom as a work in progress

5 min read . 04 Jun 2023

Modern nation-states confer several fundamental rights and privileges to married couples. (iStockphoto)

Ruth Vanita's book tells us why opposition to marriage equality is absurd

5 min read . 07 May 2023

Navaria’s tales are set in mundane, everyday situations. (iStockphoto)

Why access to opportunity doesn’t wash away exclusion

5 min read . 02 Apr 2023

John Tenniel’s illustration of Dodo in ‘Alice In Wonderland’. Image: Wikimedia Commons

What birds teach us about being human

5 min read . 03 Mar 2023