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a boy who lost an eye
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‘Into the Ravenous Bits’ – Three Poems by Prahi Rajput
Feb 28, 2026
‘Into the Ravenous Bits’ – Three Poems by Prahi Rajput
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Golchakkar: Indian Dispatches from Europe
Literature, Golchakkar The Chakkar 07/02/21 Literature, Golchakkar The Chakkar 07/02/21

Golchakkar: Indian Dispatches from Europe

Golchakkar Series - The February panel of our virtual literary talk features Sarita Jenamani and Rosalyn D’Mello: Indian Dispatches from Europe.

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Bengaluru Through the Pages of Time
Literature The Chakkar 05/02/21 Literature The Chakkar 05/02/21

Bengaluru Through the Pages of Time

An isolation hospital, a raging bull, a love rock, and many more stories come together in Eleven Stops to the Present, a new children's book on the history of India’s Silicon Valley - by Barkha Kumari

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Golchakkar: Indian Poetry from the Lockdown
Literature, Golchakkar The Chakkar 18/01/21 Literature, Golchakkar The Chakkar 18/01/21

Golchakkar: Indian Poetry from the Lockdown

Golchakkar Series - The January panel of our virtual literary talk features K.S. Subramanian, Mallika Bhaumik, and Amit Shankar Saha: Indian Poetry from the Lockdown.

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Excerpt: THE AWASTHIS OF AAMNAGRI by Shubha Sarma
Literature The Chakkar 06/01/21 Literature The Chakkar 06/01/21

Excerpt: THE AWASTHIS OF AAMNAGRI by Shubha Sarma

‘Or perhaps, Pandit Dinanath Awasthi was exhausted. Tired of a large, brabbling family in a small, rented house, he was convinced that it was time to create memories in a home of his own.’ An excerpt from Shubha Sarma’s novel, The Awasthis of Aamnagri (2020).

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Golchakkar: Experiments in Indian Flash Fiction
Literature, Golchakkar The Chakkar 12/12/20 Literature, Golchakkar The Chakkar 12/12/20

Golchakkar: Experiments in Indian Flash Fiction

The latest panel of Golchakkar Series with Abha Iyengar, Gaurav Monga, and Jose Varghese: Experiments in Indian Flash Fiction.

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Excerpt: ‘FERAL DREAMS: Mowgli & His Mothers’ by Stephen Alter
Literature The Chakkar 23/11/20 Literature The Chakkar 23/11/20

Excerpt: ‘FERAL DREAMS: Mowgli & His Mothers’ by Stephen Alter

In his novel Feral Dreams: Mowgli & His Mothers (2020), award-winning author Stephen Alter revisits Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, taking forward Mowgli’s story, transposing the classic jungle tale into unexplored terrain. Here is an excerpt from the first chapter of the book.

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Golchakkar: The Non-Indian in Indian Literature
Literature, Golchakkar The Chakkar 15/11/20 Literature, Golchakkar The Chakkar 15/11/20

Golchakkar: The Non-Indian in Indian Literature

The latest panel of Golchakkar Series with Kaushik Barua and Dipika Mukherjee: A conversation about Non-Indian characters from writers of Indian origin; of authenticity, appropriation, cultural anthropology, and more.

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A Migrant’s Ordinarily Extraordinary Story: Christopher Raja’s Into The Suburbs</em>
Literature The Chakkar 03/11/20 Literature The Chakkar 03/11/20

A Migrant’s Ordinarily Extraordinary Story: Christopher Raja’s Into The Suburbs

Christopher Raja’s memoir Into the Suburbs: A Migrant’s Story is a tale of isolation, not just from a place, but also from family, and in some ways, from the self. - by Kanika Jain.

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Golchakkar: Open Your Eyes—Poetry’s Response to Climate Change
Literature, Golchakkar The Chakkar 19/10/20 Literature, Golchakkar The Chakkar 19/10/20

Golchakkar: Open Your Eyes—Poetry’s Response to Climate Change

Contributors to the anthology Open Your Eyes Vinita Agrawal, Gayatri Chawla, Alex Josephy, and Sudeep Sen, join us in a panel for the Golchakkar Series to discuss what it means to use poetry and literature as a response to climate change.

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Maha-India: Revisiting the brave complexities of Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel</em>
Literature The Chakkar 16/10/20 Literature The Chakkar 16/10/20

Maha-India: Revisiting the brave complexities of Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel

Why Shashi Tharoor’s satirical 1989 masterpiece The Great Indian Novel—which married India’s recent history with The Mahabharata—is as relevant as ever in today’s polarising times. - by Atulya Pathak

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Stepsons and Foreigners: An Interview with Aruni Kashyap
Literature The Chakkar 04/10/20 Literature The Chakkar 04/10/20

Stepsons and Foreigners: An Interview with Aruni Kashyap

Writer, translator, and editor Aruni Kashyap discusses his remarkable short-story collection His Father’s Disease, building the shaky bridge from Assam to Delhi to America, and the indissoluble bond between the personal and the political in literature.- by Karan Madhok.

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The Machines are Learning. Are the People, Too?
Literature The Chakkar 25/09/20 Literature The Chakkar 25/09/20

The Machines are Learning. Are the People, Too?

In his urgent and timely novel The Machine is Learning (2020), Tanuj Solanki confronts the rise of artificial intelligence with the complexities of 21st century humanity - by Kiran Bhat.

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