Plot summaries, literary analysis, and essential context behind South Asia's greatest writers — from Tagore to Arundhati Roy, from Premchand to Perumal Murugan.
Set in Kerala, Roy's debut follows twins whose lives are shattered by a single afternoon — the death of their mother's Dalit lover at police hands. A devastating examination of the 'love laws' governing caste and desire.
Read full entry →103 devotional prose poems that made Tagore the first Asian Nobel laureate.
Read full entry →The most radical political document in Indian history — caste must be destroyed, not reformed.
Read full entry →"Our method of expression has to be a dialect which will some day prove to be as distinctive and colourful as the Irish or the American."— Raja Rao, foreword to Kanthapura, 1938
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