November 20, 2014
Rebirth : Book Review
When I picked up Rebirth by Jahnavi Barua, frankly speaking I was quite skeptical as not many books on feminist…
Category: FE Lit Month
November 15, 2014
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
Recently, I read Siddhartha Deb’s book The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India. The first thing…
September 1, 2014
The Roots and the Roving Spirits: Review: The Gurkha’s Daughter
Spread largely over three countries- Nepal, Bhutan and India, the Gurkhas are an enigma of sort. With the stories about…
August 15, 2014
The Chacha of Indian Comics
There was nothing special about them. That’s exactly what made them so special. They were all plain, humble and…
August 2, 2014
The Versatile Writer – Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan is the author of the novels “Lunatic in my Head,” “Neti, Neti” and “Difficult Pleasures,” a short story…
August 2, 2014
Love in the Time of Insurgency – Book Review
Love is such a strong emotion that strives even when we see violence all around us. At least, that is…
August 2, 2014
Surface: Book Review
Surface is a journalistic fiction novel and it tells the story about a journalist, Amit Singh who is working in…
August 2, 2014
Spotting Veron & Other Stories – Book Review
The stories in this collection are very real and describe the basic instinct in us that makes us to react…
August 2, 2014
Static at the threshold: Review of Mitra Phukan’s ‘A Monsoon of Music’
At a time when uncalled excitements seems to be the trend of most of the new and young writers of…
August 2, 2014
Children Literature in English from Northeast
One of the best things children can be introduced to at young, impressionable ages is the habit of reading books…
August 2, 2014
Lost in Translation
The weekend was lazy and I had to stretch my legs. The only open spaces left walkable being malls, I…
July 16, 2014
The term Northeast Literature might slot the authors: Ankush Saikia
Born in Tezpur , Assam in 1975 , Ankush Saikia is the author of three books – two novels and…
July 16, 2014
Book Review : Che in Paona Bazaar
Book Blurb : North-East India is not an ‘imagined community’, separated from the politics and policies that govern the rest…
July 16, 2014
Wholesome yet lighter ” The Music on the Hill”
By Saki Sylvia Seltoun ate her breakfast in the morning-room at Yessney with a pleasant sense of ultimate victory, such…