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The 15th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival concluded amid applause and fanfare on Monday at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur.The world's biggest 'hybrid' literature Festival hosted around 600 speakers, artists and performers from across India ...
It’s a collection of essays and fictions by cat lovers
Through essays and through stories, cat lovers and cynics document the times in their lives that they spend, or have spent, in the company of cats.
Essays about the French and British in India, a podcast-turned-book, a novel in verse, a collection of never-before translated poems from Bangla, and more.
Updated Feb 7, 2021, 12:42 pm IST A deeply absorbing novel of the old school, Beautiful Place is strongest when it portrays the worlds that the author is familiar with Cover page of Beautiful Place by Amanthi Harris Nilwatte Beach, somewhere off the coast of southern Sri Lanka, is a beautiful place. The sea, “with its yearning rising green-blue swell and the deep-blue simmering stillness of horizon” crashes upon a languorous beach that is dotted with shacks selling beer and fish, peopled with a few foreign (mostly white) tourists or posh Sri Lankans — the sort who favour scrappy holi...