Jayant Prasad

Jan 28, 2025 | frontline.thehindu.com | Chitvan Gill |Nipun Prabhakar |Jayant Prasad |Vaishna Roy

Dreaming a Paradise, written by the photographer and documentary filmmaker Chitvan Gill, takes us deep into the heart of Buland Masjid, an unauthorised settlement on the banks of the river Yamuna in Delhi. Through richly detailed text and photographs, Gill shows us a community that, despite being overlooked and walled off from the city’s wealth, thrives with energy and enterprise. The book unfolds like a guided walk through the narrow lanes of Buland Masjid.

Jan 26, 2025 | frontline.thehindu.com | Samantha Harvey |Bhavya Dore |Jayant Prasad |Vaishna Roy

Six astronauts circle the earth aboard the International Space Station. How do they feel and what do they see in the course of one earth day? This is the premise of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, which won the 2024 Booker Prize. A slim 136-page affair set in space, it is neither science fiction nor speculative fiction. It operates in the straightforward register of realism.