Kanika Sharma

Dec 7, 2024 | hindustantimes.com | Kanika Sharma

At 49, Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her fifth novel, Orbital, which flips humanity’s traditional view of the skies — feet planted firmly on the ground, eyes trained upwards — and directs our gaze at Earth as seen from a distance: luminous, rare…, and endangered. The book follows six astronauts aboard a fictionalised International Space Station, through a single day (16 orbits, of 90 minutes each).

Dec 7, 2024 | htsyndication.com | Kanika Sharma

India, Dec. 7 -- At 49, Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her fifth novel, Orbital, which flips humanity's traditional view of the skies - feet planted firmly on the ground, eyes trained upwards - and directs our gaze at Earth as seen from a distance: luminous, rare., and endangered. The book follows six astronauts aboard a fictionalised International Space Station, through a single day (16 orbits, of 90 minutes each).

Sep 20, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Kanika Sharma |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M

Rupleena Bose, who teaches English literature at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, made her debut as a novelist earlier this year with Summer of Then, which is a nod to Ottessa Moshfegh, Deborah Levy, and Rachel Cusk. Written like a fictional memoir, the novel explores the decade from 2010 to 2020, as experienced by a young, unnamed woman writer. It explores the difficulties of becoming an author and an academic in India while examining the sexual and identity politics of the time.

Jul 24, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Kanika Sharma |Mitali Mukherjee |Rishika Pardikar |Mridula Chari

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly,” said the American speculative fiction writer C.J. Cherryh. But, is that not the struggle? An editor helps shape stray words into a book. Sadly, with the lack of good editing programmes and the low pay incentives in the profession, the clan of editors is becoming rare in India and is inaccessible to many, even if they are available.

Jul 19, 2024 | vogue.in | Kanika Sharma

In less than 10 days from now, Bilquis Mir will become the first Indian woman on the Paris Olympics jury. Not just Indian but she will also be the first Muslim, the first Kashmiri and the first canoeist from India. In marking all those firsts, Mir will defy the odds of coming from a patriarchal society, a state in perennial turmoil and a cricket-obsessed country that has yet to encourage other sports with the same gusto.