Vortex: Bhola cyclone saga that changed Bangladesh's histo...
November 13 ,2022
|
By: Syed Faiz Ahmed
How much power does a piece of literature or film possess?
The answer is found during the legendary scene of Pather Panchali, the magn...
Booker prize goes to Sri Lankan political satire
October 23 ,2022
|
By: Lucy Christopher
Shehan Karunatilaka, author. Photo: Dominic Sansoni
Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his...
Annie Ernaux wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2022
October 8 ,2022
|
By: SAM Staff
Annie ernaux is surely the only winner of the Nobel prize in literature to have written nostalgically—even ecstatically&mdas...
Fighting for an India Under Communal Assault
September 24 ,2022
|
By: M.R. Narayan Swamy
Former Vice President Hamid Ansari. Photo: Reuters
The spirited intellectual response to the communal poison trying to wipe out a...
Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: A reader’s introduction to th...
September 9 ,2022
|
By: SAM Staff
The 2022 Booker Prize shortlist.
From a longlist of 13 books, the Booker Prizes announced its shortlist of six novels on...
The Hindutva growth story
August 23 ,2022
|
By: Dayal Paleri
Photo: Reuters/Ajay Verma
In his review of Yogendra Yadav’s latest book, Ramachandra Guha makes a striking observation...
As Seagull Books turns 40, Naveen Kishore explains the wor...
June 5 ,2022
|
By: Chintan Girish Modi
Naveen Kishore, founder, Seagull Books. Illustration: Binay Sinha
In the sweltering heat of peak April, I have a breakfast meeting...
Penang's architectural gems collected in new book
May 23 ,2022
|
By: Chantal Sajan
Dr Jon Lim's second book, The Penang House: Rise Of The Malaysian Architect, 1887-2017, has just been released in bookstores. PH...
Remembering Sara Suleri who knew the importance of peace b...
March 29 ,2022
|
By: Beena Sarwar
Sara Suleri (June 1953 - March 2022) Photo: Twitter/@FarooqiMehr
“Aur bataiye” – tell me more – a polite i...
‘For a Muslim in this country, justice is utopian’: Aasif...
January 22 ,2022
|
By: Shubhanjana Das
Delhi police personnel detaining the student protestors who were marching to the Parliament. (Photo by Farhan Khan in 'Hum Dekhenge')...
India starts to talk about child sexual abuse
November 11 ,2021
|
By: Rosemary Marandi
Rituparna Chatterjee's brave memoir "The Water Phoenix" has helped to bring the issue of child sexual abuse into the open in Ind...
The road to balance in Asia Pacific
November 5 ,2021
|
By: SAM Staff
One of the defining factors of twenty-first-century world politics is the yin-yang philosophy of China-US relations. This unique coupli...
Trauma lingers in novel about Sri Lanka's civil war
September 6 ,2021
|
By: Victor Mallet
The legacy of Sri Lanka's civil war looms large in Anuk Arudpragasam's second book, "A Passage North," which has been longl...
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam review – trouble in Utopi...
June 1 ,2021
|
By: Hephzibah Anderson
Tahmima Anam: ‘swipes at an industry in which innovation has far outpaced regulation’. Photograph: Abeer Y Hoque
It&rs...
Unravelling controversial Tamil Nadu leader Karunanidhi’s...
May 27 ,2021
|
By: P.K. Balachandran
In contrast to iconic Tamil Nadu leaders like K. Kamaraj or M.G. Ramachandran (MGR), who were invariably portrayed glowingly, Muthuvel...
Book review: Thai, Myanmar militaries bounded by politics,...
May 20 ,2021
|
By: Marwaan Macan-Markar
Myanmar's junta chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, presides over an Armed Forces Day parade in Naypyitaw on March 27....
A terrorist attack sparks the plot of Megha Majumdar’s pow...
June 3 ,2020
|
By: Parul Sehgal
“If the police didn’t help ordinary people like you and me, if the police watched them die, doesn’t that mean that th...
The Myth of Henry Kissinger
May 14 ,2020
|
By: Thomas Meaney
Kissinger in 1972. Caption
In 1952, at the age of twenty-eight, Henry Kissinger did what enterprising graduate students do wh...
Reading Myanmar—‘Miss Burma’ and the Liberal Conscience
March 28 ,2020
|
By: Tony Waters
Miss Burma (2017) by Charmaine Craig is a historical novel that tells the story of Burma from the perspective of a Karen family that wa...
This novel brings Burma to readers so authentically that i...
March 4 ,2020
|
By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Burma Independence Army enters Rangoon, 1942
The Lacquered Curtain of Burma, Eugene Lawrence’s debut novel is, in parts, abo...
Peaceful trade relations between Lanka and the Arabs befor...
January 19 ,2020
|
By:
This book review examines the relations between ancient Sri Lanka and the Arab world as described in the book “Arabs of Serandib&...
latest News
Column
P.K. Balachandran
Colombo Chronicle
Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
Ikram Sehgal
Karachi Canvas
Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
