Spanning Kerala, the Arabian Gulf and more, the celebrated Malayalam novelist’s works narrate the realities of globalisation from below, and the heavy burdens of displacement and migration
Events like the Galle Literary Festival and Matara Festival for the Arts have always been elite playgrounds, but now – to their detriment – they are also increasingly arenas of state power and international politics
A conversation with the author Smriti Ravindra on her debut novel ‘The Woman Who Climbed Trees’, and how it sheds light on the long-ignored topic of the Madhesi experience, particularly that of women
A generation of Tibetan writers, many working in English, are laying claim to the voice of exile and pushing back against the fetishisation of Tibet by the West
