Dakshayini Suresh

Sep 4, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Hari Kunzru |Dakshayini Suresh |C.P. Chandrasekhar |R.K. Radhakrishnan

Writers are worried. They are aware of their position as members of a cultural coterie involved in a relatively elite system of production, which often comes with privileged access to space and financial and intellectual resources. Consider writing grants, for example, which enable writers to write funded and uninterrupted in remote locations. Then there is the massive scale of influence that comes with letting your work be promoted by global publishing giants.

Jun 25, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Dakshayini Suresh |Nirupama Subramanian |Vaishna Roy

Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate, enduring voice of Latin America, connoisseur of the strange, and astute observer of literary culture, has been brought back from the dead.

Sep 21, 2023 | frontline.thehindu.com | Shuma Raha |Amey Tirodkar |Abhinav Chakraborty |Dakshayini Suresh

Women, especially strong women, are used to being hit with an assortment of epithets, none of them flattering. Witch, virago, fury, termagant, harpy, hussy, shrew, dragon… the list is a long one. A man may be a boss, and an insufferable one at that, but “bossy” is a pejorative that is attributed only to women.