“I have often felt, as a writer, that I am giving expression to something beyond myself - something that emerges from a different realm that I, perhaps unconsciously, tap into in the act of writing. To that degree the text is both mine and beyond me, an artefact that emerges like a stream from the ocean of stories that I have been privileged to channel to my readers.” (Shashi Tharoor in “The Anxiety of Audience”, FEATURE)

“He suddenly remembered where he had met the manager, or rather why he had looked so intensely familiar. He looked like the Mexican footballer with a difficult-to-pronounce name, whom he had seen on the neighbour’s TV, who, to judge from the yellow and red cards he kept earning, was not a nice person to know.” (Anees Salim, Excerpt from The Bellboy, FEATURE)

“For we will never be again / Who we were this morning. / Chunky bittersweet orange hours /Oozing out of a jam jar / A viscous will of its own. / Wisdom is knowing /
Nothing ever stops / Neither time nor marmalade. /Rock or butterfly, / Or the beating of the brave heart.” (Anita Nair, ‘Daring and Doing’, FEATURE) 
 

The growing unrest in accepting India as a multicultural, plural, or diverse nation can be attributed to the complexity of the term "culture". Cultural studies scholars have consistently highlighted that all cultures are infused with a sense of identity. (H Kalpana in FEATURE Section) (LITERARY SECTION)

Psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors, nurses and in fact, all caregivers are human after all. At times, in their hectic schedules without their knowledge, they might reach the nadir. Living Dead by Chandana Pathak, translated from Assamese by Anannya Nath, portrays the true world of therapists. (FICTION)
 

Theories and principles of life presented in textbooks are far away from the reality on the ground, in day-to-day life. This is clearly evident in Kumarika Roy’s simple and lucid narration Unfortunately Fortunate wherein the protagonist shifts roles from being an aspiring Psychoanalyst to a call girl. (FICTION)
 

Vishal Prabhu plays with words through his poems. The slicing of words into halves, where they create a new meaning for a sentence is a feat that creates a powerful rendering by the poet. (POETRY)
 

Chayanika Saikia’s poems are an ode to autumn. Through a series of short poems, she heralds the birth of autumn and its effects on one’s surroundings. (POETRY)
 

Sudha Rai finds What Will People Say? by Mitra Phukan, a beautifully worked out, compelling narrative, that upholds through the lens of Indian widowhood, the feminist demand for women’s equality, and normalisation and legitimisation of their need for romance and companionship. (BOOK REVIEWS)
 

D Sreejith in his review emphasises that Shunting the Nation by Aniruddha Bose deserves a special mention in the annals of historiography since the narrative survives, apart from archival shreds of evidence, predominantly on the difficult-to-be-extracted information from the memoirs of people who worked in the Railway, including the author’s family members.  (BOOK REVIEWS)