Love, romance, flirting, wooing, chemistry... All this and more as three authors of recent books, Madhavi Mahadevan (The Temporary Wife: The Story of Hidimbi and Bheem), Prajwal Hegde (The Way We Were) and Vani Mahesh (Meet Me in the Middle), discuss that hot, hot magic between men and women - with Shinie Antony. Read More..

In an unnamed town lives Nena. Water burns her skin, to the extent that she can neither drink it nor bathe in it. She speaks several languages and still grieves about the books that were her childhood companions—that her heartless brother had thrown into the river. And she exults in telling stories about her late husband’s affairs—with a laughter that precludes sympathy. Then, in her seventies, she embarks on a journey to track down all her husband’s lovers. The narrator, a boy of seventeen, whom she calls Tata accompanies her on this mission. By journey’s end, Read More..

Walk into the theatre of short fiction. The drama of this genre, its focus on human nature. Characters who enter and exit. The dialogue. The music and lyrics, the song and dance. The rhythm of a story, its arc, wordcount. The beginning and the ending - and all that stuff that makes up the mysterious middle. Let's call on stage, the Short Story. Read More..

In his younger days, Alfred Hughes had been quite the Nineties revolutionary at his university in England, clad in faded army fatigues and smoking Cuban cigars. They called him Ché Freddo. His comradesinarms were Nido—Nitin—son of divorced Indian immigrants, and Eugenia—ardent admirer of Sylvia Plath, who believed that one had to sacrifice everything for a cause, be fearless in death. Into this mix came Anju Kale, of British Asian heritage, the only child of a disheartened Indian Marxist father and a submissive, but wealthy, English mother, and her entry into this tigh Read More..