Tanuj Solanki

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Tanuj Solanki |David Killick |R.K. Radhakrishnan

The MadhouseGyan Chaturvedi, translated by Punarvasu JoshiThornbird BooksRs.595The liberalisation of the economy in the 1990s gives context to this allegorical novel where “The Citizen” finds himself trapped in a madhouse, under the unblinking eyes of “The Bazaar”. ___Night in DelhiRanbir SidhuContextRs. 399Mumbai is often presented as a ruthless city ruled by mafias. Delhi, in Ranbir Sidhu’s portrayal, is as dark and cut-throat, with characters floating in a grey, amoral world.

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Tanuj Solanki |David Killick |R.K. Radhakrishnan

Over the past two decades, the southern tip of the subcontinent has seen some spectacular archaeological breakthroughs. From 2004 on, excavations by the Kerala State Archaeology Department along the coast of central Kerala, in small towns like Pattanam, Paravoor, and Kodungallur—collectively known as the Muziris project—established a flourishing trade link with ancient Rome in the 1st century BCE.

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Gautam Bhatia |Vaishna Roy |Tanuj Solanki

About one-third of the way into Gautam Bhatia’s latest novel, The Sentence, the protagonist Nila says something that I thought odd: “I think I wanted a world more contained. A world I could cup in my hands, and know its limits.