Mr. and Mrs. Soundaryam ran Athithi Devo Bhava — a small joint in the city of Chennai. People from all walks of life crowded around the stall and business was quick, often rushed, with hardly a minute to be wasted as the middle-aged couple churned out hot fluffy idlis, dosas and vadas that were served […]
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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory near by, and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established. Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His […]
The old Cool Water Well is said never to dry up, but it is now sealed, and serves only as a traffic roundabout. The streets around the well house contain a number of middle-class housing colonies. Professional people of all castes – Bunts, Brahmins, and Catholics – live side by side here, although the Muslim […]
Tara was fat. Her husband made it clear that it didn’t do his image any good to have her waddling around, jiggling rolls of flesh. “I don’t waddle,” she said, hurt. “You do,” said Abhay and that was the end of the matter. So far as words were concerned it was an established pattern that […]
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), who wrote in Bengali and later in English, was the first Asian author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1913). His own translations from Bengali, his mother tongue, into English brought Tagore a wide readership in the West. This contributed to shaping his literary voice, in his lifetime, far from […]
Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now called Chennai), and grew up in Mangalore in the south of India. He was educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His articles have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, and the Times of India. […]
Manju Kapur is an Indian writer and professor of literature in Delhi University. She was born in 1948 in Amritsar. Kapur graduated from the Miranda House University College for women and went on to take an MA at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and an M.Phil. at Delhi University. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won […]
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