Weekly reading: The Akhil Katyal interview, book reviews, excerpts, and more

  • 21 Sep, 2022

A Haryana couple is killed for marrying for love. What similar dangers do many Indian couples face?

An excerpt from ‘The Newly Weds: Three Couples Who Risked Everything for Love’, by Mansi Choksi.

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‘The poetic and the political has to go together’: Akhil Katyal on reading and writing poetry

Akhil Katyal on his favourite poets, translating Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry, editing an anthology of queer poetry from South Asia, and more.

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‘Temple Lamp’: Mirza Ghalib’s poem on Banaras is an ode to the ancient city’s cosmopolitan heritage

Originally titled ‘Chirag-e-Dair’, this long poem written by Mirza Ghalib has been translated from the Persian into English in its entirety for the first time.

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2022 Kirkus Prize: 18 fiction, nonfiction, young readers’ books compete for $50,000 cash prize

The winner be announced on October 27.

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Booker Prize shortlisted ‘Treacle Walker’ is a fantasy in form but a literary novel every other way

Alan Garner packs within hundred and fifty odd pages enough to put multi-part fantasy franchises to shame.

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‘Growing Up Karanth’ is a personal sketch of Shivarama Karanth’s life as remembered by his children

Shivarama Karanth was a novelist in the Kannada language, playwright, and an ecological conservationist.

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Life, death, intimacy and privilege: Four works of Covid-19 fiction – and what they say about us

At the heart of these novels is the question of how to live with others in intimate relationships, when the outside world is fraught with danger.

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Santal Rebellion 1855: This book explores why it took place, how it was fought, and the way it ended

An excerpt from ‘Hul! Hul! The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855’, by Peter Stanley.

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A single mother (and a counsellor) gives advice on how to have awkward conversations with a child

An excerpt from ‘Unparenting: Sharing Awkward Truths with Curious Kids’, by Reema Ahmad.

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‘Lord of The Rings’: A guide to the expanded world of Middle-earth in JRR Tolkein’s other books

There is a whole universe in several books that expand what we know outside of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’.

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