Often viewed through the lens of Partition, ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ reveals a deeper, rarely explored critique of industrial society’s dehumanising grip on individual lives and dreams ...

Holly Martins, an author of pulp fiction, arrives in Vienna in search of his childhood friend, Harry Lime, accidentally ...

On stage and in the studio, Mclusky was one of the most acerbic, aggressive, and sarcastic bands around. For those lucky ...

Very few things stay consistent over twenty years. Within two decades, children will become adults, world leaders will trade positions, and pop culture ...

Last year was the death centenary of Franz Kafka. Mark Harman’s richly annotated translation of his selected stories and micro narratives is surely one of the most meaningful tributes to the modernist ...

Jewish German Gerda Philipsborn moved to India to work at and help build Jamia Millia Islamia. This is the biography of a remarkable Jewish German woman dedicated to the larger cause of building a mor ...

Kafka’s absurdity, Buzzati’s silence, and Forster’s echoing caves confront war’s illusions of glory and the politics of hate.

Franz Kafka, Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Case Study and Olga Ravn’s The Employees. It begins with Tom Crowley, an employee who loses his daughter at a “bring your daughter to work day”.

On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...