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Much of the action unfolds in Isabel’s home; a grand, well-proportioned structure with a history—it is practically a character in the novel. Representative image

A house, a recluse, and a stranger

It seems entirely fitting that this vivid, slow-burning novel was awarded this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Bhavya Dore
Oct 03, 2025
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte’s official photo (colourised).  

When justice knocked on Pinochet’s London door

Philippe Sands follows the aftershocks of Nazi crimes and Pinochet’s arrest, where law meets memory, and justice is not just a courtroom drama.
Bhavya Dore
May 07, 2025
In one sense, Dream Count is what you get when you take the conceit of men are bad, yes all men, and turn that into a novel.

Writing a wrong: Power, privilege, and womanhood in Dream Count

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest novel presents the female experience as a smorgasbord of tragedies, and all men as bad.
Bhavya Dore
Mar 31, 2025
The International Space Station orbiting over river Amazon.

Six astronauts in search of our collective salvation

Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning “Orbital” has an inviting premise and lyrical prose but tends to get glib as the narrative bobs along plotlessly.
Bhavya Dore
Jan 27, 2025
A still from the 2015 movie, Brooklyn, starring Saoirse Ronan, based on Tóibín’s 2009 blockbuster novel of the same name.

Sequel with a soul

If homesickness was the top note in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, in this follow-up novel, Long Island, we see how the homecoming unspools.
Bhavya Dore
Aug 07, 2024
The tennis player Serena Williams talks to referee Brian Earley during the women’s final of the US Open on September 8, 2018.

Female furious: Why women’s anger is demonised

Pragya Agarwal’s Hysterical explores how social conditioning, not biology, shapes how we express ourselves, and why women pay the price for anger.
Bhavya Dore
Mar 21, 2024
The Bhojpuri Youtuber, Neha Singh Rathore, whose “Ka Ba” series is about a common woman talking about what she sees.

Frontline On Air | How small-town comedians are taking the internet by storm

Heartland comedians are using humour more fearlessly and effectively, finding their voices and audiences online.
Bhavya Dore
Jan 03, 2024

Heartland Humour

Comedy in India extends beyond urban stand-up scenes, with performers from diverse regions gaining traction online and on social media.
Bhavya Dore
Dec 28, 2023
Stéphane Breitwieser, arguably one of the world’s most “successful and prolific” art thieves.

How to steal a masterpiece, a la Stéphane Breitwieser

In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel examines what motivated a working-class Frenchman to become an art thief.
Bhavya Dore
Nov 16, 2023
The Bhojpuri Youtuber, Neha Singh Rathore, whose “Ka Ba” series is about a common woman talking about what she sees.

How small-town comedians are taking the internet by storm

Heartland comedians are using humour more fearlessly and effectively, finding their voices and audiences online.
Bhavya Dore
Nov 16, 2023
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