Paromita Chakrabarti

Persepolis author took world inside post-revolution Iran, amplified sorrows, demands of its women

Homemakers need social infrastructure that eases the burden of care work, shares it more equitably, and values it more fully

The story of Kolkata’s hawkers goes back to successive waves of displacement that reshaped the city in the mid-20th century. The Bengal famine of 1943 and Partition in 1947 brought thousands of impoverished migrants and refugees to a city ill-equipped to absorb them.

The story of Kolkata’s hawkers goes back to successive waves of displacement that reshaped the city in the mid-20th century. The Bengal famine of 1943 and Partition in 1947 brought thousands of impoverished migrants and refugees to a city ill-equipped to absorb them.

Land is a novel sparked by the discovery that O’Farrell’s great-great grandfather was an Irish cartographer

The distance between Ishar's lifelong devotion and the horror that unfolded at Lohagad may appear impossible to bridge, yet both stories illuminate the same unsettling truth — love is shaped as much by the freedoms it is denied as by the emotions it inspires

The greatest epics hold out because they throw up new questions for every generation, even as they refuse to settle into a singular interpretation. But Nolan’s film is the story of an uncomplicated man

American Indologist Wendy Doniger, whose memoir ‘For the Love of Stories: Confessions of An Accidental Feminist’ is now out, speaks about the dangers of provocation in academia and why she would not advise students to follow in her footsteps today

A nation that cannot argue about its future — that treats the economist’s dissent, the historian’s revision, the stand-up comic’s satire as inconvenient noise — loses not just the capacity to correct itself but the possibility of imagining something different from what it has

The Kannada writer and author of 'Ghachar Ghochar' has launched a journal, publishing house and digital platform to bring Indian-language writing to a global readership